| Description |
1 online resource (595 p.) |
| Series |
Commonwealth Caribbean Law Ser |
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Commonwealth Caribbean Law Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Definition -- Tort distinguished from other legal concepts -- Tort and crime -- Tort and contract -- The forms of action -- Intention and negligence -- Strict liability -- Motive and malice -- Reception of the law of torts in the Caribbean -- Antigua -- The Bahamas -- Barbados -- Dominica -- Grenada -- Guyana -- Jamaica -- St Lucia -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Chapter 2 Trespass to the Person -- Introduction |
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Assault and battery distinguished -- Assault -- Words -- Battery -- Defences to assault and battery -- Defence of person or property -- Parents' and teachers' authority -- Consent -- Assessment of damages for assault and battery -- False imprisonment -- Lawful arrest -- Arrest with warrant -- Arrest without warrant -- Arrest on reasonable suspicion -- Other statutory powers of arrest -- Statutory protection for constables -- Procedure during and after arrest -- Arrest through agent -- Signing the charge sheet -- Assessment of damages for false imprisonment -- Chapter 3 Malicious Prosecution |
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Introduction -- Requirements of the tort -- Institution of prosecution -- Termination of prosecution in claimant's favour -- Absence of reasonable and probable cause -- Malice -- Section 33 of the Constabulary Force Act (Jamaica) -- Damage -- Extension to malicious institution of civil proceedings -- Chapter 4 Negligence -- Introduction -- Definition -- Duty of care -- More recent trends -- Breach of duty -- The likelihood of harm -- The seriousness of the injury that is risked -- The importance or utility of the defendant's activity -- The cost and practicability of measures to avoid the harm |
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Intelligence, knowledge and skill of the reasonable man -- Intelligence -- Knowledge -- Skill -- Omissions -- Proof of negligence -- res ipsa loquitur -- Requirements of the doctrine -- Traffic accidents -- Skids, tyre bursts and latent defects -- Causation -- Causation in fact -- Remoteness of damage -- Other rules regarding remoteness -- Foreseeable type of harm -- The 'egg-shell skull' principle -- Liability for economic loss -- Negligent misstatement causing economic loss -- Other cases of liability for economic loss -- Liability for psychiatric injury -- Chapter 5 Occupiers' Liability |
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The Occupiers' Liability Acts -- The occupier -- Premises -- Visitors -- Common duty of care -- Independent contractors -- Defences -- Excluding liability -- Warnings -- Common law liability -- Liability to invitees -- Liability to licensees -- Liability to trespassers -- Trespassing employees -- Chapter 6 Employers' Liability -- Personal duty of employer at common law -- Competent staff of men -- Adequate plant and equipment -- Safe system of working and effective supervision -- Safe place of work -- Statutory duties -- Contributory negligence -- Chapter 7 Nuisance -- Public and private nuisance |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Public nuisance |
| Subject |
Torts.
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Caribbean Area
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torts.
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Torts
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Caribbean Area
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Corthesy, Natalie
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| ISBN |
9781351065085 |
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1351065084 |
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