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• Title:The law of torts in Australia / Kit Barker [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Barker, Kit.
  
• Published/Created:South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press, 2012.
  

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  • Call Number: KU940 .L39 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Torts--Australia.
  
• Edition:5th ed.
  
• Description:civ, 855 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Previously published: 2007.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195572391 (pbk.)
  0195572394 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Torts and Tort Law
  1.1. What is a tort?
  1.2. relationship between tort law and other legal categories
  1.2.1. Tort law and criminal law
  1.2.2. Tort law and contract law
  1.2.3. Tort law and the law of restitution
  1.2.4. Tort law and the law of trusts
  1.2.5. Tort law and property law
  1.3. Standards of liability in tort law
  1.4. Sources of Australian tort law
  1.5. Tort law at the beginning of the twenty-first century
  1.6. Tort theory
  1.6.1. Economic analysis
  1.6.2. Corrective justice theory
  1.6.3. Critical theory
  1.6.4. Theory and debates about tort reform
  1.7. Alternatives to the tort system
  2. Interference with the Person
  2.1. Historical background and relationship with negligence
  2.2. Trespass to the person
  2.2.1. Damage
  2.2.2. Overlap with criminal proceedings
  2.3. Battery
  2.3.1. Direct contact
  2.3.2. Intentional contact
  2.3.3. Contact with the body of the plaintiff
  2.3.4. Knowledge of the contact
  2.4. Assault
  2.4.1. Conduct constituting a threat
  2.4.2. Directness
  2.4.3. Apprehension of an imminent battery
  2.4.4. Conditional threats
  2.4.5. Intention
  2.4.6. Reasonable apprehension
  2.5. False imprisonment
  2.5.1. Intention
  2.5.2. Total restraint
  2.5.3. Directness
  2.5.4. Knowledge of the imprisonment
  2.6. Actionability of other intentional acts
  2.6.1. intentional infliction of harm otherwise than through trespass to the person
  2.6.2. intentional infliction of mental harm
  2.7. Defences to the trespass torts
  2.7.1. Necessity
  2.7.2. Insanity
  2.7.3. Discipline
  2.7.4. Illegality
  2.7.5. Self-defence
  2.7.6. Provocation
  2.7.7. Consent
  2.7.8. Lawful authority
  2.8. Damages
  2.8.1. Battery and assault
  2.8.2. False imprisonment
  2.8.3. action for the intentional infliction of harm
  2.9. Alternative compensation schemes
  2.10. Malicious prosecution and abuse of process
  2.10.1. Malicious prosecution
  2.10.2. Abuse of process
  3. Interference with Goods
  3.1. Introduction
  3.2. Trespass to goods
  3.2.1. Intention
  3.2.2. nature of the plaintiff's interest
  3.2.3. Directness
  3.2.4. kinds of interference sufficient to constitute trespass
  3.2.5. Actual damage
  3.2.6. jus tertii and trespass to goods
  3.3. Conversion
  3.3.1. subject-matter of conversion
  3.3.2. required interest in the goods
  3.3.3. Mental element
  3.3.4. Dealings with goods that amount to conversion
  3.3.5. jus tertii and conversion
  3.4. Detinue
  3.4.1. subject-matter of detinue
  3.4.2. nature of the plaintiff's interest
  3.4.3. Requirements to establish detinue: possession, demand and refusal
  3.4.4. Mental element
  3.4.5. jus tertii and detinue
  3.5. Damage to reversionary interest in goods
  3.6. Defences to torts of interference with goods
  3.6.1. Necessity
  3.6.2. Illegality
  3.6.3. Distress
  3.6.4. Consent
  3.6.5. Lawful authority
  3.7. Remedies
  3.7.1. Recaption of chattels
  3.7.2. Trespass to goods
  3.7.3. Conversion
  3.7.4. Detinue
  3.7.5. Action for damage to reversionary interest in goods
  4. Interference with Land
  4.1. Introduction
  4.2. Trespass to land
  4.2.1. What is land?
  4.2.2. nature of the plaintiff's interest in land
  4.2.3. Directness
  4.2.4. Intention
  4.2.5. Kinds of interference sufficient to constitute trespass
  4.3. Actions for damage to reversionary interest
  4.4. Defences to the tort of trespass to land
  4.4.1. Necessity
  4.4.2. Consent
  4.4.3. Lawful authority
  4.5. Remedies
  4.5.1. Damages
  4.5.2. Injunction
  4.5.3. Abatement by self-help
  5. Nuisance
  5.1. Private nuisance
  5.1.1. Interests protected: `the use and enjoyment of land'
  5.1.2. Unreasonable interference
  5.1.3. Motive
  5.1.4. Who can sue?
  5.1.5. Who can be sued?
  5.1.6. Defences
  5.1.7. Remedies
  5.1.8. Nuisance and negligence
  5.2. Public nuisance
  5.2.1. What is a public nuisance?
  5.2.2. public or a section of the public
  5.2.3. Unreasonableness
  5.2.4. Who may be sued?
  5.2.5. Remedies
  5.2.6. Defences
  5.2.7. Public nuisance and negligence
  6. Interference with Pure Economic Interests
  6.1. Introduction
  6.2. meaning of intention
  6.3. Deceit
  6.3.1. Introduction
  6.3.2. False representation
  6.3.3. Dishonesty
  6.3.4. Intention that the plaintiff will rely
  6.3.5. Reliance
  6.3.6. Damage and remedies
  6.4. Injurious falsehood
  6.4.1. Introduction
  6.4.2. Relationship with defamation
  6.4.3. False statement
  6.4.4. Publication to a third party
  6.4.5. `Malice'
  6.4.6. Damage and remedies
  6.5. Passing off
  6.5.1. Introduction
  6.5.2. standard of liability
  6.5.3. Goodwill: trading reputation
  6.5.4. Examples of misrepresentations amounting to passing off
  6.5.5. Remedies
  6.6. Misleading and deceptive conduct
  6.7. Intentionally procuring a breach of contract
  6.7.1. Elements and rationale
  6.7.2. Conduct amounting to procurement
  6.7.3. Intention to procure breach
  6.7.4. Defence of justification
  6.7.5. Remedies
  6.8. Intimidation
  6.8.1. Introduction
  6.8.2. Coercive threat of unlawful action
  6.8.3. Intention to harm the plaintiff
  6.8.4. Justification
  6.8.5. Remedies
  6.9. Conspiracy
  6.9.1. General elements of conspiracy
  6.9.2. Conspiracy by lawful means
  6.9.3. Conspiracy by unlawful means
  6.9.4. Intention to injure
  6.9.5. Justification
  6.9.6. Remedies
  6.10. Interference with trade or business by unlawful means
  6.10.1. Introduction and relationship to the other economic torts
  6.10.2. Application of unlawful means
  6.10.3. Intention to injure
  6.11. Misfeasance in a public office
  6.11.1. Introduction
  6.11.2. Public officer
  6.11.3. Excess of authority: invalid or unauthorised act
  6.11.4. required mental element
  6.11.5. Damage and remedies
  7. Defamation and Invasion of Privacy
  7.1. Introduction: defamation, reputation and freedom of speech
  7.1.1. nature of the interest in reputation
  7.1.2. Competing interests: freedom of speech
  7.2. History and modern landscape
  7.3. Liability requirement 1: defamatory matter
  7.3.1. Types of defamatory matter
  7.3.2. Defamatory meaning
  7.4. Liability requirement 2: publication
  7.4.1. What constitutes publication?
  7.4.2. Liability for publication
  7.4.3. Liability for republication
  7.4.4. Publication by non-removal of defamatory matter
  7.5. Liability requirement 3: identification of the plaintiff
  7.5.1. Matter must refer to the plaintiff
  7.5.2. Plaintiff identified by innuendo
  7.5.3. Defamation of a body or class of persons
  7.5.4. Defamation of one of two or more persons
  7.6. Defences
  7.6.1. Justification
  7.6.2. Fair comment (honest opinion)
  7.6.3. Absolute privilege
  7.6.4. Qualified privilege
  7.7. Remedies
  7.7.1. Damages
  7.7.2. Injunctions
  7.7.3. Other remedies: offers of amends, retractions, rights of reply and declarations
  7.8. invasion of privacy
  7.8.1. Introduction
  7.8.2. nature of the interests in privacy
  7.8.3. expanded law of confidence: the misuse of private information?
  7.8.4. embryonic tort?
  7.8.5. statutory cause of action?
  8. Negligence: Negligent Conduct
  8.1. Sketch of the tort of negligence
  8.2. Foreseeability, probability and the standard of care
  8.3. negligence calculus
  8.3.1. Probability
  8.3.2. Seriousness of risk
  8.3.3. Burden of precautions
  8.3.4. social utility of the risky activity
  8.3.5. Completing the equation
  8.4. Negligence as an objective standard
  8.4.1. Financial resources
  8.4.2. Physical and mental capacity
  8.4.3. Age
  8.4.4. Experience and skill
  8.5. External factors relevant to standard of care
  8.5.1. Custom and accepted standards
  8.5.2. Statutory rules and regulations
  8.5.3. Emergencies
  8.5.4. Time for assessing negligence
  8.6. Negligence as a question of fact
  8.7. Proof of negligence
  8.7.1. Inferences and credibility
  8.7.2. Onus and standard of proof
  8.7.3. Res ipsa loquitur
  8.7.4. Expert evidence
  9. Negligence and the Scope of the Obligation to Take Care: Duty of Care
  9.1. Introduction
  9.2. anatomy of duty of care
  9.2.1. General principles of duty
  9.2.2. Duty of care and foreseeability
  9.2.3. Duty categories and the scope of duty
  9.3. Physical injury and damage
  9.4. Mental harm
  9.4.1. What is mental harm?
  9.4.2. Arguments for limiting recovery
  9.4.3. Principles of liability
  9.5. Economic loss
  9.5.1. What is economic loss?
  9.5.2. Arguments for limiting recovery
  9.5.3. Three types of economic loss case
  9.6. Some specific duty issues
  9.6.1. Omissions
  9.6.2. Judicial processes
  9.6.3. Military operations
  9.6.4. Conception and birth
  9.6.5. Rescuers
  10. Negligence and the Scope of the Obligation to Take Care: Causation and Consequences
  10.1. Causation and damage
  10.2. Factual causation
  10.2.1. `but-for' test
  10.2.2. balance of probabilities test
  10.3. Attributive causation
  Contents note continued: 10.3.1. Choosing among factual causes
  10.3.2. Multiple sufficient causes
  10.3.3. Intervening causes
  10.3.4. Remoteness of damage
  10.3.5. Foreseeability in perspective
  10.3.6. Kind of damage
  10.3.7. Foreseeable harm may not fall within the scope of liability
  10.4. Statutory provisions dealing with causation and remoteness
  11. Negligence: Two Applications
  11.1. Liability of occupiers of land to visitors
  11.1.1. Background to the current law
  11.1.2. Who is an occupier?
  11.1.3. What are premises?
  11.1.4. Classes of visitors
  11.1.5. Exclusion of liability
  11.1.6. Types of dangers
  11.1.7. Recoverable loss
  11.1.8. Standard of care
  11.1.9. Conclusion
  11.2. Liability of occupiers for escape of dangerous things
  11.3. Public functions
  11.3.1. structure of negligence law
  11.3.2. role of the courts
  11.3.3. law
  12. Defences to Torts Involving Negligence
  12.1. Contributory negligence
  12.1.1. History
  12.1.2. What is contributory negligence?
  12.1.3. apportionment legislation
  12.2. Volenti non fit injuria
  12.2.1. Introduction
  12.2.2. Volenti and standard of care
  12.2.3. Volenti and exclusion of liability
  12.2.4. Assumption of risk and related defences
  12.3. Illegality
  12.3.1. Introduction
  12.3.2. Plaintiff's conduct causally independent of the tort
  12.3.3. Plaintiff's conduct causally related to the tort
  12.3.4. Statutory limitations where plaintiff is involved in illegal conduct
  12.4. Exclusion of liability
  12.4.1. Exclusion of liability by disclaimer
  12.4.2. Statutory exclusions of liability
  13. Product Liability
  13.1. Protections arising out of contractual arrangements: implied terms and guarantees
  13.2. Protection through the law of negligence
  13.2.1. duty of care
  13.2.2. standard of care
  13.2.3. Intermediate inspection
  13.2.4. Proof of negligence
  13.2.5. Damage recoverable
  13.3. Australian Consumer Law Part 3-5
  13.3.1. Introduction
  13.3.2. Who can sue and who is liable?
  13.3.3. Defect
  13.3.4. Defences
  13.3.5. Strict liability for defective products in context
  14. Liability for Animals
  14.1. Overview
  14.2. Cattle trespass
  14.3. Liability for dangerous animals: the scienter action
  14.3.1. Types of animals
  14.3.2. Strict liability
  14.3.3. Recoverable damage
  14.3.4. Defences to a scienter claim
  14.3.5. Reform
  14.4. Scienter and the statutory liability for dogs
  14.4.1. General
  14.4.2. State and territory variations
  14.4.3. Reform
  14.5. Liability for negligence
  14.6. rule in Searle v Wallbank
  14.7. Comprehensive reforms
  15. Breach of Statutory Duty
  15.1. nature of the liability
  15.2. When will an action for damages lie?
  15.2.1. Not all duties are actionable
  15.2.2. legislature's approach
  15.2.3. courts' approach
  15.3. Delegated legislation
  15.4. scope of the duty
  15.5. required standard of conduct
  15.6. Causation
  15.7. Defences
  15.7.1. Contributory negligence
  15.7.2. Volenti non fit injuria
  15.7.3. Illegality
  16. Damages
  16.1. Basic principles of damages
  16.1.1. once-and-for-all rule
  16.1.2. compensation principle
  16.1.3. Non-compensatory damages
  16.2. Assessment of compensatory damages: general matters
  16.2.1. Division into pretrial/settlement and post-trial/settlement
  16.2.2. Interest
  16.2.3. Victim's duty to mitigate loss
  16.2.4. Method of calculating damages for future losses
  16.3. Damages for personal injury
  16.3.1. Pecuniary losses
  16.3.2. Non-pecuniary losses
  16.3.3. Itemisation of damages and overlapping
  16.3.4. Collateral benefits and offsetting
  16.4. Actions based on injury to another person
  16.4.1. Loss of an employee's services
  16.4.2. Loss of consortium and domestic services
  16.5. Actions arising on death
  16.5.1. Fatal accidents
  16.5.2. Survival of actions
  16.6. puzzle: compensatory damages without loss?
  16.7. Damages for property damage and pure economic loss
  16.7.1. Preliminary points: discounts, tax and date of assessment
  16.7.2. Destruction of and damage to chattels
  16.7.3. Damage to real property
  16.7.4. Economic loss resulting from negligent statements and financial services
  17. Vicarious Liability
  17.1. Introduction
  17.2. Relationships importing vicarious liability
  17.3. Employer and employee (master and servant)
  17.3.1. Indicia for determining whether the worker is an employee or an independent contractor
  17.3.2. General approach
  17.3.3. Terms of the contract consistent with contract of service
  17.4. Other tests for determining the worker's status
  17.4.1. organisation test
  17.4.2. independent business test
  17.5. Challenges to the traditional classification
  17.6. Liability for acts of non-employees
  17.6.1. Strict liability
  17.6.2. Non-delegable duties
  17.6.3. Justification for imposing liability
  17.7. Principal and agent
  17.8. Other relationships
  17.9. Nexus between relationship and act
  17.9.1. Employees
  17.9.2. Agents
  17.9.3. Independent contractors
  17.10. Express prohibitions
  17.11. act for which liability is imposed
  17.12. employer's indemnity
  17.13. Statutory vicarious liability for volunteers and `Good Samaritans'
  18. Multiple Tortfeasors: Liability and Contribution
  18.1. liability of multiple tortfeasors
  18.1.1. Basic concepts
  18.1.2. Joint tortfeasors: the effect of judgment and release
  18.1.3. Criticisms of solidary liability
  18.1.4. Proportionate liability
  18.1.5. Liability of several tortfeasors for distinct damage
  18.2. Contribution between tortfeasors
  18.2.1. right to contribution
  18.2.2. assessment of contribution
  18.2.3. Proposals for reform
  19. Limitation of Actions
  19.1. When does time begin to run?
  19.1.1. What is the gist damage?
  19.1.2. When does the gist damage occur?
  19.1.3. Latent damage
  19.2. limitation period.