Law of torts, damages and compensation

This book gives candidates preparing for the SQE1 assessment a concise and clear overview of the law of tort.

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.

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

Explores the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings.

Offers comprehensive guidance for practitioners, students, and researchers in psychology, psychiatry, and counseling to teach relaxation to clients.

This book aims to analyse the legal tools that the legislatures of France, Germany and Italy adopted in order to regulate medical malpractice.

Toxic Torts, 2nd edition shows how the American justice system underserves the public in its treatment of scientific evidence.

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

Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada.

This comprehensive volume presents a sketch of the history of tort development in the law, the general principles determining tort liability, tort remedies, and the manner in which tort liabilities may be discharged.

Contemporary philosophy and tort law have long enjoyed a happy union.

This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at progressing the rights of LGBT people.

Examining the fulfilment of international obligations by subjects of this law, this book explores the normative and functional links between the sources and rules of international law on the one hand, and the responsibility for violating international law on the other.

This new work adds to the theoretical understanding and discussion of possible solutions to various conceptual and practical problems that arise within the field of medical negligence - an area whose legal treatment is perceived, both in England and Germany, as containing a number of special difficulties and shortcomings.

A proposal for reform of civil liability law based on redesigning negligence and introducing stricter forms of liability.

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.

Das Buch Produkthaftung von Eisenberg, Gildeggen, Reuter und Willburger wendet sich an Ingenieure, Betriebswirte und Unternehmensjuristen.

EU Private Law and the CISG examines selected EU directives in the field of private law and their effects on the national private law systems of several EU Member States and discusses certain specific concepts of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in light of the CISG's recent fortieth anniversary.

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.

Tort reform is a favorite cause for many business leaders and right-leaning politicians, who contend that out-of-control lawsuits throttle growth and inflate costs, particularly in healthcare.

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.

The only practitioner's guide to the law of property damage, it is a must have for anyone practising in property damage claims.

This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader to understand its various social functions and evaluate its effectiveness in performing those functions.

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?

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

Civil wrongs occupy a significant place in private law.

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.

Private law governs our most pervasive relationships with other people: the wrongs we do to one another, the property we own and exclude from others' use, the contracts we make and break, and the benefits realized at another's expense that we cannot justly retain.

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

Occupiers' liability is an area of tort law rich in statutory material and jurisprudence, having developed outside the framework of general negligence liability.

This textbook presents an engaging and thorough examination of the law in Northern Ireland.

Risk and Negligence in Wills, Estates, and Trusts provides essential guidance for all will draftsmen.

The various national European legal systems offer a broad range of responses to the question of what can be regarded as wrongful behaviour or fault.

Can the law keep up with AI?

Laws are imposed on facts.

Considers the lessons that French medical accident liability and redress law provides for possible reform in England and elsewhere.

Initiated by the European Commission, the first study published in this volume analyses the largely unresolved question as to how damage caused by artificial intelligence (AI) systems is allocated by the rules of tortious liability currently in force in the Member States of the European Union and in the United States, to examine whether - and if so, to what extent - national tort law regimes differ in that respect, and to identify possible gaps in the protection of injured parties.

Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic testing to make plans as intimate and farreaching as any over a lifetime.

Contemporary philosophy and tort law have long enjoyed a happy union.

This textbook presents an engaging and thorough examination of the law in Northern Ireland.

This fourth edition of Business Law offers comprehensive and accessible coverage of the key aspects of business law.

This book brings together a wide range of contributors from across the common law world to identify and debate the principal moral and systemic challenges facing private law in the remaining part of the twenty-first century.

The law enables private parties to undo the wrongs committed against them, allowing victims to seek redress.

Commencing its search for a principled international criminal justice, this book argues that the Preamble to the Rome Statute requires a very different notion of justice than that which would be expected in domestic jurisdictions.

Can the law keep up with AI?

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law.