Law of torts, damages and compensation

This volume brings together expert contributors across different fields of private law to comment on key decisions by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC).

A feminist rewrite of tort law cases that reveals gender bias and the law''s failure to redress serious harms to women.

This book examines the law of compensation for personal injury in England, Germany and Italy.

Now in its third edition, this popular Handbook has been your go-to guide to the fundamentals of occupational safety and health law for over a decade.

Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world?

This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour.

Key Facts is the essential revision series for anyone studying law, including LLB, ILEX and post-graduate conversion courses.

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The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law reflects exciting developments in scholarship dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad field of private law.

Statutory obligations to take out liability insurance are, in practice, the most important means to ensure compensability of damage arising from dangerous activities.

'Restitution for wrongs', or 'restitutionary damages', is the judicial award which compels the wrongdoer to give up to the victim the benefit obtained through the perpetration of the wrong, independently of any loss suffered by the victim.

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy?

It is widely acknowledged that insurance has a major impact on the operation of tort and contract law regimes in practice, yet there is little sustained analysis of their interaction.

This book explores the use of tort laws in Bangladesh, outlining critical studies and cases on key concepts such as nuisance, international torts, negligence, and liability.

There are approximately 100 new cases each year coming before the higher courts dealing with regulatory and disciplinary issues.

This book defines and explains the operation of the defence of change of position in Anglo-Australian law.

Negligence Without Fault: Trends Toward an Enterprise Liability for Insurable Loss offers a profound exploration of the evolving landscape of liability law, focusing on the emerging concept of enterprise liability.

The Alexander Technique Workbook is a step-by-step guide that has sold over 100,000 copies.

Degeling deals with particular configurations lying at the boundary between tort and unjust enrichment.

The Optimize series is designed to show you how to apply your knowledge in assessment.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

Discusses causal uncertainty in tort liability and shows the important normative, epistemological and procedural implications of the various proposed solutions.

Presents Maimonides'' complete tort theory, and how it compares with other tort theories both in the Jewish world and beyond.

This Handbook compiles leading international research on the regulation of the sharing economy from a range of academic disciplines.

Whether, and in what circumstances, public authorities should be held liable for negligence in the performance of their public functions is a highly complex area of the law.

Over the last two decades public law liability for breach of European Union law has been subject to remarkable developments.

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL.

The different approach of the courts to product liability in a variety of different countries is examined.

Comprehensive and forward-looking analysis of civil liability for terrorism-related risk under international, EU and selected national tort laws.

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This book examines the regulatory framework for untested and unapproved uses (off-label uses) of medicines in the EU, UK, and USA.

Gain the tools to understand tort law like a professional with this accessible and current text.

This ground-breaking book takes a fresh look at potential non-litigation solutions to providing personal injury compensation.

A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should.

Develops a theory of tort law integrating deontic and consequential approaches by applying justificational analysis to identify its factors, circumstances, and values.

Now in its third edition, this work has established itself as a key point of reference on English private law for lawyers in the UK and throughout the world.

Despite the centrality of the contributory negligence doctrine in practice, almost nothing is known about how it functions in reality.

The aim of this edited collection of essays is to examine the relationship between private law and power both the public power of the state and the 'private' power of institutions and individuals.

This book provides fair and acceptable solutions to hardship issues in long-term relational supply contracts.

The development of private law across the common law world is typically portrayed as a series of incremental steps, each one delivered as a result of judges dealing with marginally different factual circumstances presented to them for determination.

The study of the law of tort is generally preoccupied by case law, while the fundamental impact of legislation is often overlooked.

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by a healer).

Punitive damages are private law's most controversial remedy.

Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates.