Know your maxim: RES IPSA LOQUITUR

Translation: “the thing speaks for itself”

This rebuttable presumption raised by the Plaintiff in a clear and obvious case to rely to the mere fact that an accident had occurred, it must raise the inference of the Defendant’s negligence, and as such a prima facie case has been proved.

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