Emerging Issues in tort law

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chamberlain, Erika (Author), Neyers, Jason W. (Author), Pitel, Stephen G. A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, [England] Portland, Or. : Hart Pub. , c2007
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. General and special tort law: uses (and abuses) of theory
  • 2. Breach of statute and tort law
  • 3. "Sois sage": responsibility for childishness in the law of civil wrongs
  • 4. Claims of involuntary parenthood: why the resistance?
  • 5. Liability for psychiatric damage: searching for a path between pragmatism and principle
  • 6. Should White v Jones represent Canadian law: a return to first principles
  • 7. Breaches of contracts and claims by third parties
  • 8. Policy issues in defective property cases
  • 9. Defective structures and economic loss in the United States: law and policy
  • 10. Harm screening under negligence law
  • 11. Acts and omissions as positive and negative causes
  • 12. Decision causation: Pandora's tool-box
  • 13. Non- delegable duties and vicarious liability
  • 14. Juridical foundations of common law non-delegable duties
  • 15. Perish vicarious liability?
  • 16. Comparative perspectives on vicarious liability: defining the scope of employment
  • 17. What is a loss?
  • 18. The changing face of the gist of negligence
  • 19. Tort law in practice: appearance and reality in reforming periodical payments of damages
  • 20. The structure of the intentional torts
  • 21. The role of intention in the tort in Wilkinson v Downton
  • 22. Where principle meets pragmatism: tort law in post-colonial Hong Kong