Title Torts : cases and commentary / Harold Luntz, David Hambly, Kylie Burns, Joachim Dietrich, Neil Foster, Genevieve Grant, Sirko Harder

Edition 8th edition Published Chatswood, N.S.W. : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro -- Full Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Injury compensation and the law of torts -- The size of the problem: some statistics -- The cost and incidence of injury -- Where injuries occur and their severity -- Personal injury litigation before and after the Ipp Report -- The role of the law of torts -- Collateral benefits -- Commonwealth income support -- Enter the law of torts -- Compulsory insurance -- A blame society? -- 2 Property damage and insurance -- Loss spreading and loss shifting 3 Critique of the fault system -- Thurston v Todd -- Notes -- Disability Care and Support: Inquiry Report -- Disability Care and Support: Inquiry Report -- Notes -- Criminal law a more effective deterrent -- Search for fault obscures real, remediable cause -- Monetary compensation helps only individuals -- 4 Other compensation schemes -- Workers' compensation -- No-fault motor accident insurance -- Victoria -- Tasmania -- Northern Territory -- New South Wales -- Criminal injuries compensation -- Other particular compensation schemes -- Comprehensive accident compensation schemes -- New Zealand Australian Woodhouse Report -- Sickness -- National Disability Insurance Scheme and the National Injury Insurance Scheme -- Lawyers need to be familiar with multiple regimes -- 5 Nature and definition of a tort -- The protection of interests at common law -- Unprotected interests -- Cabassi v Vila -- Question -- Notes -- Definition of a tort -- Aims of the law of torts -- 6 Economic analysis -- Injuries and injury-prevention costs -- Externalities and general deterrence -- Resources allocation and the 'Coase theorem' -- Criticism of the economic approach 7 Gender, tort law and feminist legal theory -- A Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort -- Notes -- Women and tort law reforms -- 8 Other tort theories -- Disability jurisprudence and tort law -- Corrective justice, rights and tort law -- Some other legal theories -- Chapter 2 Negligence: Duty of Care -- 1 Elements of the tort of negligence -- The duty concept -- 2 The search for principle -- Donoghue v Stevenson -- Notes -- Subsequent developments -- Current Australian test -- Sullivan v Moody -- Questions -- Notes -- 3 The meaning of reasonable foreseeability -- Chapman v Hearse Questions -- Notes -- Level of abstraction -- Reasonable person in the position of the defendant -- Degree of probability -- Comparison with breach and remoteness -- The unforeseeable plaintiff -- Sydney Water Corporation v Turano -- Question -- Notes -- Cases establishing the principle -- Asbestos exposure of non-employees -- 4 Proximity of relationship -- Intermediate examination -- Voli v Inglewood Shire Council -- Question -- Notes -- Other lack of proximity -- Agar v Hyde -- Notes -- Conflict with statutory duty -- Hunter and New England Local Health District v McKenna -- Question -- Notes Summary Torts: Cases and Commentary delivers a critical and analytical approach to the law of torts presented through extensive commentary and selected materials from cases, legislation and academic writings. Detailed notes explain the significance of the key cases while questions stimulate critical thinking and learning. This edition provides extended coverage of statutory defences to negligence, while doctrines relating to the scope of liability are now discussed together with factual causation in one chapter. Current issues in tort law reform are examined and additional references to academic writings are provided Analysis Australian Notes Includes index Previous edition 2013 Subject Torts -- Australia -- Cases Actions and defenses -- Cases. Actions and defenses Torts Australia Genre/Form Casebooks (Law) Trials, litigation, etc. Casebooks (Law) Recueils de cas. Form Electronic book Author Hambly, David, author Burns, Kylie, author Dietrich, Joachim, author Foster, Neil, author Grant, Genevieve, author Harder, Sirko, author ISBN 9780409342123 0409342122

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