TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neyers,Jason W.
AU  - Chamberlain,Erika
AU  - Pitel,Stephen G.A.
TI  - Emerging Issues in Tort Law
SN  - 9781847315731
AV  - KF1250.E46 2007 
U1  - 346.03 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - Torts -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Prelims -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 General and Special Tort Law: Uses (and Abuses) of Theory -- 2 Breach of Statute and Tort Law -- 3 'Sois Sage'- Responsibility for Childishness in the Law of Civil Wrongs -- 4 Claims of Involuntary Parenthood: Why the Resistance? -- 5 Liability for Psychiatric Damage: Searching for a Path between Pragmatism and Principle -- 6 Should White v Jones Represent Canadian Law: A Return to First Principles -- 7 Breaches of Contracts and Claims by Third Parties -- 8 Policy Issues in Defective Property Cases -- 9 Defective Structures and Economic Loss in the United States: Law and Policy -- 10 Harm Screening Under Negligence Law -- 11 Acts and Omissions as Positive and Negative Causes -- 12 Decision Causation: Pandora's Tool-Box -- 13 Non-Delegable Duties and Vicarious Liability -- 14 Juridical Foundations of Common Law Non-Delegable Duties -- 15 Perish Vicarious Liability? -- 16 Comparative Perspectives on Vicarious Liability: Defining the Scope of Employment -- 17 What is a Loss? -- 18 The Changing Face of the Gist of Negligence -- 19 Tort Law in Practice: Appearance and Reality in Reforming Periodical Payments of Damages -- 20 The Structure of the Intentional Torts -- 21 The Role of Intention in the Tort in Wilkinson v Downton -- 22 Where Principle Meets Pragmatism: Tort Law in Post-Colonial Hong Kong -- Epilogue -- Index
N2  - In this book leading tort scholars from across the globe deal with important theoretical and practical issues that are emerging in the law of torts
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