Emerging Issues in tort law
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, [England] Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub. ,
c2007
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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