This is really an apt description of the legal claim .... but-for.... in finding responsibility to share in the judicial findings.
I have checked and Spain's judicial system works just like that:
Each of the failed safety layers is to blame (at different levels, but still each of them).
Thus when I search for corrective actions following a causal chain in an accident I am more inclined to look at whether it's easier to improve the ...in-spite-ofs... rather than thinking that I can eliminate all the ..but-fors...
I could not agree more! That is the purpose of the Annex 13 investigating system that is being heavily jeopardised in the current judicial investigation in Spain for Spanair's JK5022.
Too much politics in it...today, even the judge worked together watching evidences with the Board...how can they be independent?
By the way, my mistake when I said
you will not get the maximum (in Spain) 30 years imprisonment, but you could very well get 10.
it actually adds up for every fatality...