Contents:Contents;
Contributors;
Introduction;
1 General and Special Tort Law: Uses (and Abuses) of Theory;
2 Breach of Statute and Tort Law;
3 8216;Sois Sage8212; Responsibility for Childishness in the Law of Civil Wrongs;
4 Claims of Involuntary Parenthood: Why the Resistance?;
5 Liability for Psychiatric Damage: Searching for a Path between Pragmatism and Principle;
6 Should White v Jones Represent Canadian Law: A Return to First Principles;
7 Breaches of Contracts and Claims by Third Parties;
8 Policy Issues in Defective Property Cases;
9 Defective Structures and Economic Loss in the United States: Law and Policy;
10 Harm Screening Under Negligence Law;
11 Acts and Omissions as Positive and Negative Causes;
12 Decision Causation: Pandoras Tool-Box;
13 Non-Delegable Duties and Vicarious Liability;
14 Juridical Foundations of Common Law Non-Delegable Duties;
15 Perish Vicarious Liability?;
16 Comparative Perspectives on Vicarious Liability: Defining the Scope of Employment;
17 What is a Loss?;
18 The Changing Face of the Gist of Negligence;
19 Tort Law in Practice: Appearance and Reality in Reforming Periodical Payments of Damages;
20 The Structure of the Intentional Torts;
21 The Role of Intention in the Tort in Wilkinson v Downton;
22 Where Principle Meets Pragmatism: Tort Law in Post-Colonial Hong Kong;
Epilogue ;
Index.
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