In a lecture to the Northern Chancery Bar Association, the author, a Chancery Silk, examines the approaches of equity and the common law to questions of causation and attempts to identify (1) where the rules of causation now stand, (2) some incongruities in those rules and (3) how those incongruities might be resolve. He discusses three problems: the question of causation and equitable remedies generally; the growing disparity between the rules of causation where positive advice or representation is given and those where there is a failure to advise or inform; and, thirdly, the measure of dependance upon culpability, in intentional torts on the one hand and in torts of strict liability on the other. He identifies various stages of causation and concludes that they are not all relevant in each of these cases.