Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort

ISBN-13: 9781849460033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 400 str.

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Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort contains 13 original essays on leading UK tort cases, ranging from the early 19th century to the present day. It is the third volume in a series of collected essays on landmark cases edited by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell (the previous two volumes having dealt with restitution and contract). The examined cases raise a broad range of important issues across the law of tort, including such diverse areas as acts of state and public nuisance, as well as central questions relating to the tort of negligence. Several of the essays place their cases in their historical context in ways that change our understanding of the case's significance. Sometimes the focus is on drawing out previously neglected aspects of cases which have been - undeservedly - assigned minor importance. Other essays explore the judicial methodologies and techniques that worked to shape leading principles of UK tort law. So much of tort law turns on cases, and there are so many cases, that all but the most recent decisions have a tendency to become reduced to terse propositions of law, so as to keep the subject manageable. This collection shows how important it is, despite the constant temptation to compression, not to lose sight of the contexts and nuances which qualify and illuminate so many leading authorities.