Per Lord Reid in Koufos v C Czarnikow Ltd (The Heron II ) [1967] 3 All ER 686 at p.690 and pp.694-695:
I use the words "not unlikely" as denoting a degree of probability considerably less than an even chance but nevertheless not very unusual and easily foreseeable.
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