TY - BOOK AU - Neyers,Jason W. AU - Chamberlain,Erika AU - Pitel,Stephen G.A. TI - Emerging Issues in tort law SN - 1841137073 AV - KF1250 .E436 2007 U1 - 346.7303 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford, [England], Portland, Or. PB - Hart Pub. KW - Torts KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; General and special tort law : uses (and abuses) of theory; Peter Cane --; 2; Breach of statute and tort law; Lewis N. Klar --; 3; 'Sois Sage' - responsibility for childishness in the law of civil wrongs; Shauna Van Praagh --; 4; Claims of involuntary parenthood : why the resistance?; Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey --; 5; Liability for psychiatric damage : searching for a path between pragmatism and principle; Michael A. Jones --; 6; Should White v Jones represent Canadian law : a return to first principles; Peter Benson --; 7; Breaches of contracts and claims by third parties; Stephen Waddams --; 8; Policy issues in defective property cases; Stephen Todd --; 9; Defective structures and economic loss in the United States : law and policy; David F. Partlett --; 10; Harm screening under negligence law; Israel Gilead --; 11; Acts and omissions as positive and negative causes; Richard W. Wright --; 12; Decision causation : Pandora's tool-box; Vaughan Black --; 13; Non-delegable duties and vicarious liability; Robert Stevens --; 14; Juridical foundations of common law non-delegable duties; John Murphy --; 15; Perish vicarious liability?; David R. Wingfield --; 16; Comparative perspectives on vicarious liability : defining the scope of employment; Paula Giliker --; 17; What is a loss?; Andrew Tettenborn --; 18; The changing face of the gist of negligence; Kumaralingam Amirthalingam --; 19; Tort law in practice : appearance and reality in reforming periodical payments of damages; Richard Lewis --; 20; The structure of the intentional torts; Ken Oliphant --; 21; The role of intention in the tort in Wilkinson v Downton; Denise Reaume --; 22; Where principle meets pragmatism : tort law in post-colonial Hong Kong; Rick Glofcheski ER -