Law of torts, damages and compensation

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

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

This collection of essays, derived from an international workshop, explores the significance of implicit understandings and tacit expectations of the parties to different kinds of contractual agreements, ranging from simple discrete transactions to long-term associational agreements such as those formed in companies.

Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more.

Accessory liability in the private law is of great importance.

Principles of the English Law of Obligations provides students with a high-quality overview of this key area of English law.

This book explores the distinction between private and public aspects in competition law and focuses on how the concept of competition is incorporated into the legal framework.

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

The first historical treatment of tort law in England during a formative period of its development.

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

Recent leading cases have demonstrated the urgent need to modernize the learning on breach of trust,which has lagged behind the flourishing scholarship on the creation of trusts.

In this book, articles by leading tort scholars from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States deal with important theoretical and practical issues that are emerging in the law of torts.

Accessory liability in the private law is of great importance.

This Casebook deals with the horizontal effects of EU law, which is to say its effects on relationships between individuals.

This book proposes a comprehensive approach to confronting racism through a foundational framework as well as practical strategies to correct and reverse the course of the past and catalyze the stalled efforts of the present.

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

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

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.

Over the last 15 years, privacy actions have been recognised at common law or in equity across common law jurisdictions, and statutory privacy protections have proliferated.

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 papers in this collection are drawn from a symposium held in Vienna in December 2010.

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

This book looks at the negligence concept of tort law and studies the efficiency issue arising from the determination of negligence.

This book is the first in a series of essay collections on defences in private law.

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

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.

Lord Justice Jackson's retirement in March 2018 concluded a career of almost 20 years on the bench.

Injury offers the first sustained anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law.

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

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

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.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

Can English courts hear tortious claims for wrongs allegedly committed by British armed forces and security services during their overseas operations?

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

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

This book does what it ''says on the tin'' - stating the corpus of tort law as a body of principles.

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

Gradually, the law of tort has shifted away from a strict-liability approach to one where fault predominates.

2013 was the 50th anniversary of the House of Lords' landmark decision in Hedley Byrne v Heller.

This is a collection of scholarship from the most influential contributors regarding Torts law.

Media law is a fast-developing area of scholarship that raises many high-profile and controversial questions.

The scope of vicarious liability has significantly expanded since its original conception.

Since its first appearance in 1986, this magisterial work has won uniform praise from many of the world's leading comparatists.

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.

Part II of The Humanity of Private Law charts a new course for English private law in the twenty-first century.

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.

This book provides valuable information and recommendations for current and future officers and correctional system employees, introducing them to civil liability and federal law, as well as recommending strategies that can be taken to minimize risks.