Rediscovering the law of negligence

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beever, Allan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland : Hart Publishing , c2007
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Corrective justice, negligence and tort law
  • 3. The standard of care
  • 4. Duty and remoteness
  • 5. Modern approaches to the duty of care
  • 6. Misfeasance, nonfeasance and the rights base of the law of negligence
  • 7. Economic loss
  • 8. Negligent misrepresentation and assumption of responsibility
  • 9. Nonfeasance and the liability of public bodies
  • 10. Defences
  • 11. Wrongful birth, wrongful conception and nervous shock
  • 12. Causation
  • 13. Proof and uncertainty
  • 14. Conclusion