Tort Liability of Public Authorities in Comparative Perspective

Tort Liability of Public Authorities in Comparative Perspective

Author: Duncan Fairgrieve

Publisher: British Institute for International & Comparative Law

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13:

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This book examines the law on compensation for administrative wrongdoing from a comparative law perspective. Particular account is taken of the increasing influence of human rights law, European Community law and international law.


Tort Liability of Public Authorities in European Laws

Tort Liability of Public Authorities in European Laws

Author: Giacinto della Cananea

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0198867557

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Administrative law permeates all areas of law, and this series focuses on its role both regionally and globally. This volume considers tort liabilities in European public authorities. It looks at several European countries, using case studies to compare administrative laws across the EU.


Vicarious Liability in Tort

Vicarious Liability in Tort

Author: Paula Giliker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-10-28

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1139493078

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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.


The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities

The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities

Author: Cherie Booth

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199265411

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This is a thorough account of the law on the negligence liability of public authorities, providing practical guidance as well as a clear analysis of this developing area of law.


French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective

French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective

Author: Jean-Sébastien Borghetti

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-12-26

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 150992728X

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The French law of torts or of extra-contractual liability is widely seen as exceptional. For long it was based on a mere five articles of the Civil Code of 1804, but on this foundation the courts and legal scholars have constructed liabilities for fault and strict liability of an extraordinary breadth and significance. While the rest of the general law of obligations (including contract) in the Civil Code was reformed in 2016 by executive ordonnance, this area was left aside, being the subject in 2017 of a proposal by the French Government for the legislative reform of the law of civil liability, a new legislative category to include both contractual and extra-contractual liability. This work considers important aspects of this developing area of French law in a series of essays by French lawyers and comparative lawyers working in French law and other civil law systems. In doing so, it provides insight into the doctrinal thinking and judgments of French lawyers as well as the possible directions in which this area of the law may be developed in the future.


Damages for Violations of Human Rights

Damages for Violations of Human Rights

Author: Ewa Bagińska

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 3319189506

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This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law, and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights violations are embraced, including historical injustices and systematical and gross violations. The book is a collection of nineteen contributions written by public international law, international human rights and private law experts, covering fifteen European jurisdictions (including Central and Eastern Europe), the United States, Israel and EU law. The contributions, initially prepared for the 19th International Congress of Comparative law in Vienna (2014), present the latest developments in legislation, scholarship and case-law concerning domestic causes of action in cases of human rights abuses. The book concludes with a comparative report which assesses the developments in tort law and public liability law, the role of the constitutionalisation of the right to damages as well as the court practice related to the process of enforcement of human rights through monetary remedies. This country-by-country comparison allows to consider whether the value of protection of human rights as expressed in international treaties, ius cogens and in national constitutional laws justifies the conclusion that the interests at stake should enjoy protection under the existing civil liability rules, or that a new cause of action, or even a whole new set of rules, should be created in national systems.


Corporate Duties to the Public

Corporate Duties to the Public

Author: Barnali Choudhury

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1108421466

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Today's economic and social context demands that corporations - once seen only as private actors - owe duties to the public.


Comparative Tort Law

Comparative Tort Law

Author: Mauro Bussani

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-02-26

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 1789905982

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This revised second edition of Comparative Tort Law: Global Perspectives offers an updated and enriched framework for analysing and understanding the current state of tort law around the world. Using a critical comparative methodology, it covers not only the common tort law issues but also many jurisdictions often overlooked in the mainstream literature. Contributions explore illuminating case studies from tort systems in Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, including new chapters specifically discussing tort law in Brazil, India and Russia.