Emerging Issues in tort law /
edited by Jason W. Neyers, Erika Chamberlain and Stephen G. A. Pitel.
- xvi, 593 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General and special tort law : uses (and abuses) of theory / Breach of statute and tort law / 'Sois Sage' - responsibility for childishness in the law of civil wrongs / Claims of involuntary parenthood : why the resistance? / Liability for psychiatric damage : searching for a path between pragmatism and principle / Should White v Jones represent Canadian law : a return to first principles / Breaches of contracts and claims by third parties / Policy issues in defective property cases / Defective structures and economic loss in the United States : law and policy / Harm screening under negligence law / Acts and omissions as positive and negative causes / Decision causation : Pandora's tool-box / Non-delegable duties and vicarious liability / Juridical foundations of common law non-delegable duties / Perish vicarious liability? / Comparative perspectives on vicarious liability : defining the scope of employment / What is a loss? / The changing face of the gist of negligence / Tort law in practice : appearance and reality in reforming periodical payments of damages / The structure of the intentional torts / The role of intention in the tort in Wilkinson v Downton / Where principle meets pragmatism : tort law in post-colonial Hong Kong / Peter Cane -- Lewis N. Klar -- Shauna Van Praagh -- Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey -- Michael A. Jones -- Peter Benson -- Stephen Waddams -- Stephen Todd -- David F. Partlett -- Israel Gilead -- Richard W. Wright -- Vaughan Black -- Robert Stevens -- John Murphy -- David R. Wingfield -- Paula Giliker -- Andrew Tettenborn -- Kumaralingam Amirthalingam -- Richard Lewis -- Ken Oliphant -- Denise Reaume -- Rick Glofcheski. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.