Law of torts, damages and compensation

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Thousands of lawsuits continue to be filed in federal and state courts each year to seek recovery from manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Key Facts Key Cases: Tort Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Tort Law module with ease.

Class actions in privacy law are rapidly growing as a legal vehicle for citizens around the world to hold corporations liable for privacy violations.

This book is a large-scale historical reconstruction of liberal legalism, from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century, the moment in which the jurists forged the alliance between political liberalism and legal expertise embodied in classical private law doctrine, to the contemporary anxiety about the possibility of both a liberal solution to the problem of political justification and of law as a respectable form of expert knowledge.

The publication of Scholars of Tort Law marks the beginning of a long overdue rebalancing of private law scholarship.

The healthcare delivery system in the United States is inundated with medical malpractice and liability issues, and there is no consensus about causes or solutions.

A comprehensive analysis of liability for animals this book covers harm done by dangerous and straying animals including both dangerous and non-dangerous species.

Originally published in 1954 and here reissuing the second edition of 1963, The Nigerian Legal System (now with a new preface by Olusoji Elias), is an account of the history of the courts, the sources and general principles of law in Nigeria.

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Commonwealth Caribbean Tort Law is well established as the leading text on tort law in the Caribbean jurisdictions, now updated in its sixth edition.

The principal objective of this book is simple: to provide a timely and effective means of navigating the current maze of case law on causation, in order that the solutions to causal problems might more easily be reached and the law relating to them more easily understood.

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law examines the inconsistencies in the definitions of consent in sexual encounters by examining emerging sex crimes alongside changing community values and the changing legal definitions of consent in sexual offending, focusing on common law and civil law countries.

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law examines the inconsistencies in the definitions of consent in sexual encounters by examining emerging sex crimes alongside changing community values and the changing legal definitions of consent in sexual offending, focusing on common law and civil law countries.

Essential Tort Law for SQE1 explains the key principles of tort law in a clear, easy-to-follow style.

This book examines the challenges of the implementation of Islamic law in Malaysia.

This book challenges certain differences between contract, tort and equity in relation to the measure (in a broad sense) of damages.

This book is a collection of essays examining the remedy of contract damages in the common law and under the international contract law instruments such as the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.

Describes and analyses the law concerning accessories in tort, contract, equity and statute across common law jurisdictions.

This book adopts a novel approach to resolving the present difficulties experienced by the courts in imposing strict liability for the tort of another.

This book of essays champions tort scholarship that puts judges at centre stage: what they do, how they understand their role, the heterogeneous reasons they give for their decisions, and their constitutional responsibility to identify and articulate the 'living' and 'evolving' common law.

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This is a completely revised and expanded second edition, building on the first edition with two principal aims: to elucidate the role that domestic tort principles play in securing to citizens the human rights standards laid down in the European Convention on Human Rights, including the new 'remedy' under the Human Rights Act 1998; and to evaluate tort principles for compliance with those standards.

'Proving' the cause of the plaintiff's injury in personal injury litigation often entails significant challenges, particularly when science cannot identify the cause of a biological phenomenon or when the nature of this cause is debatable.

This book aims to provide a detailed analysis and overview of the duty of care enquiry, drawing on both academic analyses and judicial experience in leading common law systems.

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Leading legal theorists examine the philosophical foundations of tort law.

This book undertakes an analysis of academic and judicial responses to the problem of evidential uncertainty in causation in negligence.

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The book provides a comparative analysis of the law relating to remedies for breach of contract.

The debate about the use of genetically modified organisms in European agriculture is fuelled by the fear of the general public about potential risks of GM farming, whether substantiated or not.

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

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 English translation makes available to anglophone readers a modern classic of German tort theory.

The language of duress and necessity is found in crime, tort and contract.

This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights.

Douglas Brodie examines how the common law has evolved to address concerns about corporate social responsibility.

This is the leading work on forensic medicine and the law in the UK.

In this book leading scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia challenge established common law rules and suggest new approaches to both old and emerging problems in tort law.

The Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe examines the new codifications, reforms, and other recent developments in Central and Southeast Europe which have significantly modernized the law of obligations in the last two decades, focusing particularly on the legal systems of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Turkey.

This fourteenth edition of Law Made Simple marks the fiftieth year of the publication for one of the best-selling UK Law books.

This book analyzes the emergence of cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of cell phone and Internet technologies.

This book gives new insights into employment law by analysing a neglected topic: remedies for breaches of employment rights.

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