Vicarious Liability in the Law of Torts
Title | Vicarious Liability in the Law of Torts PDF eBook |
Author | P. S. Atiyah |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Damages |
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Vicarious Liability in Tort
Title | Vicarious Liability in Tort PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Giliker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2010-10-28 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1139493078 |
Vicarious liability is controversial: a principle of strict liability in an area dominated by fault-based liability. By making an innocent party pay compensation for the torts of another, it can also appear unjust. Yet it is a principle found in all Western legal systems, be they civil law or common law. Despite uncertainty as to its justifications, it is accepted as necessary. In our modern global economy, we are unlikely to understand its meaning and rationale through study of one legal system alone. Using her considerable experience as a comparative tort lawyer, Paula Giliker examines the principle of vicarious liability (or, to a civil lawyer, liability for the acts of others) in England and Wales, Australia, Canada, France and Germany, and with reference to legal systems in countries such as the United States, New Zealand and Spain.
Unification of Tort Law
Title | Unification of Tort Law PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Donato Busnelli |
Publisher | Kluwer Law International B.V. |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9041121854 |
Covers various European countries, Israel, South Africa, and the United States.
Vicarious Liability
Title | Vicarious Liability PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Baty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Agency (Law) |
ISBN |
"A short history of the liability of employers, principals, partners, associations and trade-union members, with a chapter on the laws of Scotland and foreign states."--T.p.
Exploring Tort Law
Title | Exploring Tort Law PDF eBook |
Author | M. Stuart Madden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 2005-09-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780521851367 |
This is a collection of scholarship from the most influential contributors regarding Torts law.
Casebook on Tort Law
Title | Casebook on Tort Law PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsty Horsey |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Torts |
ISBN | 0192893653 |
A companion for undergraduate tort law students, providing a comprehensive portable library of leading tort cases. Horsey & Rackley bring together a range of carefully edited extracts, combined with insightful commentary and annotated cases to help students identify and analyse the key elements of a case.
Reconceptualising Strict Liability for the Tort of Another
Title | Reconceptualising Strict Liability for the Tort of Another PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Beuermann |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1509917543 |
This book adopts a novel approach to resolving the present difficulties experienced by the courts in imposing strict liability for the tort of another. It looks beyond the traditional classifications of 'vicarious liability' and 'liability for breach of a non-delegable duty of care' and, for the first time, seeks to explain all instances of strict liability for the tort of another in terms of the various relationships in which the courts impose such liability. The book shows that, despite appearances, there is a unifying feature to the various relationships in which the courts currently impose strict liability for the tort of another. That feature is authority. Whenever the courts impose strict liability for the tort of another, the defendant is either vested with authority over the person who committed a tort against the claimant or has vested or conferred a form of authority upon that person in respect of the claimant. This book uses this feature of authority to construct a new expositive framework within which strict liability for the tort of another can be understood.