A history of tort law 1900-1950 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Paul, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015
Series:Cambridge studies in English legal history
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Definition and theory
  • War
  • Women
  • Children
  • Media
  • Roads
  • Workmen
  • Part II. The Law Revision Committee
  • Death
  • Contribution
  • Husbands
  • Contributory negligence
  • Conclusion : Beyond 1950
  • Appendix. Lipstein and Gutteridge on defamation
  • The impact of institutions and professions on fault liability in England / Paul Mitchell
  • The impact of institutions and professions on compensation for occupational injury in England / Peter Bartrip
  • The impact of institutions and professions in Scotland / Elspeth Reid
  • The impact of institutions and professions in France / Paula Giliker
  • The impact of institutions and professions in Germany / Jens M. Scherpe
  • The impact of institutions and professions in the Netherlands / Esther Engelhard and Ivo Giesen
  • The impact of institutions and professions in Spain / Isabel GonzÁlez Pacanowska and Martin García-Ripoll Montijano
  • The impact of institutions and professions in Sweden / Mårten Schultz
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I: 2. Definition and theory; 3. War; 4. Women; 5. Children; 6. Media; 7. Roads; 8. Workmen; Part II: 9. The Law Revision Committee; 10. Death; 11. Contribution; 12. Husbands; 13. Contributory negligence; 14. Conclusion: beyond 1950; Appendix. Gutteridge and Lipstein on defamation: 'Defamation in European Systems of Law' by K. Lipstein; 'General Observations' by H.C. Gutteridge