State Liability in Tort: A Comparative Law Study

ISBN-13: 9780199258055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 408 str.

Duncan Fairgrieve

Opis

This book examines financial compensation for wrongs committed by public bodies including medical negligence, educational errors, child abuse by local authority carers, and police misconduct. Recent English cases are analysed and compared with European decisions. Explanation is given of ways of gaining compensation outside the courts, through complaints-procedures, ombudsmen, and statutory schemes.

Recenzje

Fairgrieve's comprehensive study will be of value to anyone studying the question of tort liability of public or statutory bodies. His analysis is close and careful.

O autorze

Duncan Fairgrieve is at the Université de Paris II, since 2002 he has been a visiting academic at the Università degli studi di Torino, Italy