Law of torts, damages and compensation

Prepare for a successful career as a paralegal with the key concepts and practical principles of tort law clearly presented in Edwards/Cull's TORT LAW, 7E.

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

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

The legal and commercial importance of the tort of Conversion is difficult to overstate, and yet there remains a sense that the principles of the tort are elusive.

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

Rediscovering the Law of Negligence offers a systematic and theoretical exploration of the law of negligence.

The legal and commercial importance of the tort of Conversion is difficult to overstate, and yet there remains a sense that the principles of the tort are elusive.

Though mental harm can be profoundly disabling, the law imposes strict limits on who can recover damages for it.

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

Personal Injury Schedules: Calculating Damages covers in one single volume all that the PI practitioner needs in order to calculate damages in a personal injury case.

Personal Injury Schedules: Calculating Damages covers in one single volume all that the PI practitioner needs in order to calculate damages in a personal injury case.

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

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

Shortlisted for DSBA Law Book of the Year Award 2020The law in Ireland regarding causes of action involving the internet is a rapidly growing area of law and litigation.

Shortlisted for DSBA Law Book of the Year Award 2020The law in Ireland regarding causes of action involving the internet is a rapidly growing area of law and litigation.

Professional negligence cases are a minefield and clinical negligence cases are no exception.

Professional negligence cases are a minefield and clinical negligence cases are no exception.

This book proposes three liability regimes to combat the wide responsibility gaps caused by AI systems vicarious liability for autonomous software agents (actants); enterprise liability for inseparable human-AI interactions (hybrids); and collective fund liability for interconnected AI systems (crowds).

This book proposes three liability regimes to combat the wide responsibility gaps caused by AI systems vicarious liability for autonomous software agents (actants); enterprise liability for inseparable human-AI interactions (hybrids); and collective fund liability for interconnected AI systems (crowds).

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

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

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.

In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, nine justices of the Supreme Court of England and Wales decided in favour of a restitutionary award in response to an unjust enrichment, despite the illegal transaction on which that enrichment was based.

In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, nine justices of the Supreme Court of England and Wales decided in favour of a restitutionary award in response to an unjust enrichment, despite the illegal transaction on which that enrichment was based.

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law.

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law.

How tort, contract, and restitution law can be reformed to better serve the social goodLawyers, judges, and scholars have long debated whether incentives in tort, contract, and restitution law effectively promote the welfare of society.

Product liability is a contentious issue.

Do the dead have rights?

This book explores how the concept of fairness is used in different legal fields to ensure that the laws we live under are just and reasonable.

The traditional definition of torts involves bizarre, idiosyncratic events where a single plaintiff with a physical impairment sues the specific defendant he believes to have wrongfully caused that malady.

Torts--personal injury law--is a fundamental yet controversial part of our legal system.

Torts--personal injury law--is a fundamental yet controversial part of our legal system.

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Health care in the US and elsewhere has been rocked by economic upheaval.

In Global Perspectives on Income Taxation Law, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Nicola Sartori, and Omri Marian cover basic, corporate and international tax law from a comparative perspective.

While the right to have one's day in court is a cherished feature of the American democratic system, alarms that the United States is hopelessly litigious and awash in frivolous claims have become so commonplace that they are now a fixture in the popular imagination.

While the right to have one's day in court is a cherished feature of the American democratic system, alarms that the United States is hopelessly litigious and awash in frivolous claims have become so commonplace that they are now a fixture in the popular imagination.

This history of tort law in America looks at how the subject has been conceptualized, pointing out why changes in rules occurred, and who did the changing.

In the mid 1980s, there was a crisis in the availability, affordability, and adequacy of liability insurance in the United States and Canada.

The proliferation of chemical substances in commerce poses scientific and philosophical problems.

The Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages are designed to provide a clear and logical framework for the assessment of damages in personal injury cases.

The Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages are designed to provide a clear and logical framework for the assessment of damages in personal injury cases.

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.

This series argues that there is a common administrative core to European legal systems that can be better understood in comparative terms.

This series argues that there is a common administrative core to European legal systems that can be better understood in comparative terms.

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

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