Research Catalog

Title

Foundations of the law of tort / Glanville Williams, B. A. Hepple.

Author

Williams, Glanville (Glanville Llewelyn), 1911-1997

Publication

London : Butterworths, 1976.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Hepple, B. A.

Description

xv, 182 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

Torts > Great Britain > Outlines, syllabi, etc

Genre/Form

Outlines and syllabi

Note

• Includes appendix.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 174-176.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1: The scope and function of tort -- The meaning of "tort" -- The overlap between tort and crime -- The action for damages adn other civil remedies -- Extra-judicial remedies -- Tort and breach of contract -- Tort and equitable wrongs -- Tort and quasi-contract -- Claims for statutory compensation -- Summary of the definition of tort -- The aims of the law of tort -- 2: The ghost story -- Old rules to the forms of action -- The abolition of the forms of action -- The influence of hte forms of action on legal categories -- Their surviving importance in pleading -- The action of trespass -- The action upon the case -- The element of fault in trespass -- The burden of proof -- 3: Damage -- Damage and injury -- Nominal damages and the forms of action -- General and special damages -- Injunctions -- Aims of damages: the case of exemplary damages -- Compensation for personal injury and death -- Glossary -- 4: Fault -- The forms of fault: intention, recklessness and inadvertent negligence -- Negligence as an independent tort -- Negligence as a conflict of values -- The standard of the reasonable man -- Negligence and strict statutory duties -- Negligence and nuisance -- Hazards and strict liability -- Vicarious liability -- An evaluation of the fault principle -- 5: Insurance -- Social justification -- Intentional torts an exception -- Limits of liability insurance -- Types of liability insurance -- Compulsory insurance -- Third-party rights -- Failure to insure -- The Motor Insurers' Bureau -- The gaps that remain -- The effect of liability insurance on the law of tort -- The effect of insurance on the bringing of actions -- Evaluation -- 6: Tort and administrative law -- Industrial injuries -- No-fault insurance for automobile accidents in Canada and the U.S.A. -- Comprehensive social insurance -- New Zealand and Australia -- Market deterrence -- Administrative sanctions -- Residual role of tort law -- Appendix: further reading -- Index

ISBN

0406683840 : 0406683859

LCCN

^^^76370838^//r91

OCLC

• 2463830
• SCSB-10111675

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library