The focus of the essays in this book is on the relationship between compensation culture, social values, and tort damages for personal injuries. A central concern of the public and political perception of personal injuries claims is the high cost of tort claims to society, reflected in insurance premiums, often accompanied by an assumption that tort law and practice is flawed and improperly raising such costs. The aim of this collection is to clarify the relationship between tort damages for personal injuries and the social values that the law seeks to reflect and to balance, then to...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to how the legal dimension of prevention against harm and loss allocation is treated in Ireland. This traditional branch of law not only tackles questions which concern every lawyer, whatever his legal expertise, but also concerns each personand#8217;s most fundamental rights on a worldwide scale.

Following a general introduction that probes the distinction between tort and crime and the relationship between tort and contract, the monograph describes how the concepts...