Principles and methods of determining causation in tort liabilities

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that, despite the complexity and philosophical nature of the issues of causation that arise in courts when resolving disputes arising from tort obligations, the highest judicial authorities, both in the Soviet and Russian periods, have never summarized them at the level of plenums. The existing civil law theories of causation are not uniformly accepted by judicial practice. The same or almost similar legal situations can be resolved in different ways both in doctrine and in judicial practice, and proving a causal relationship may require the submission of dozens or even hundreds of documents. The object of this study is the existing judicial practice and theoretical provisions that allow us to build a model for establishing a causal relationship in tort obligations. The study also concludes that it is advisable to supplement Article 1080 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.