Peter Cane (Canberra Australian National University), James Goudkamp (University of Oxford)

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law is the only book written in a Commonwealth jurisdiction that examines the accident compensation system in its broader social context. It provides the reader with a significantly richer understanding of the relevant law than they would obtain from books that concentrate on just the legal principles.

Produktdetails

• Law in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 9 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1074g
• ISBN-13: 9781108431743
• ISBN-10: 1108431747
• Artikelnr.: 51388291

Autorenporträt

Peter Cane is Senior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Law at the Australian National University College of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Issues in Perspective: 1. Introduction: surveying the field
Part II. The Tort System in Theory: 2. Fault as a basis of liability
3. The scope of the tort of negligence
4. Departures from the fault principle
5. Causation and remoteness of damage
6. Damages for personal injury and death
7. An appraisal of the fault principle
Part III. The Tort System in Operation: 8. Claims and claimants
9. Tortfeasors and insurers
10. Settlements and trials
Part IV. Other Compensation Systems: 11. First-party insurance
12. Compensation for criminal injuries
13. The social security system
14. Other forms of assistance
Part V. The Overall Picture: 15. A plethora of systems
16. The cost of compensation and who pays it
17. The functions of compensation systems
Part VI. The Future: 18. Accident compensation in the twenty-first century.