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Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law Peter Cane (Australian National University, Canberra)

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law By Peter Cane (Australian National University, Canberra)

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law by Peter Cane (Australian National University, Canberra)


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Summary

Besides giving an account of the technicalities of personal injury law, this book explains how the tort system works in practice, how it relates to the social security system, the criminal injuries compensation scheme, and personal and liability insurance.

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law Summary

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law by Peter Cane (Australian National University, Canberra)

Since publication of the seventh edition of this seminal text, personal injury law has witnessed momentous changes. A major overhaul of the social security system began in 2012 and the Equality Act 2010 significantly modifies anti-discrimination law and its impact on the disabled. But perhaps the most important legal developments have affected the financing and conduct of personal injury claiming and the operation of the claims-management industry. This new edition takes account of all this activity while setting it into a wider and longer perspective. Complaints that Britain is a 'compensation culture' and that the tort system is out of control are explained and assessed and options for further change are explored. Through the turmoil and controversy, the tort system remains a central feature of the legal and social landscape. The book's enduring central argument for its radical reform remains as compelling as ever.

About Peter Cane (Australian National University, Canberra)

Peter Cane is Distinguished Professor of Law at the Australian National University College of Law. His main research interests are in the law of obligations, especially tort law; public law, especially administrative law; and legal theory.

Table of Contents

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; Index.

Additional information

GOR005357044
9781849042550
1849042551
Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law by Peter Cane (Australian National University, Canberra)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2013-02-28
544
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