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• Title:The law of professional immunities / Mark Davies, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex.
  
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• Author/Creator:Davies, Mark, 1964- author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD1994 .D38 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Administrative responsibility--Great Britain.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xi, 250 pages ; 26 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199695959 (hbk.)
  0199695954 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: A. Defining Terms
  1. 'Professions' and the general scope of civil liability
  2. 'The timeliness of this work
  B. Theoretical Underpinnings
  1. One duty or many duties?
  2. Hohfeldian ideas
  C. Nature of Immunities
  1. 'Immunity' or absence of duty?
  D. Human Rights and Immunities
  E. Development and Demise of Immunities
  F. Demise of Professional Self-regulation and the Demise of Immunities
  A. Historical Background to Litigation Based Immunities
  B. Judicial Immunity
  1. Defamation
  2. Other civil claims
  3. current extent and desirability of judicial immunity
  4. Recusal
  C. Arbitrators
  D. Administrative Officers Undertaking Judicial Functions
  E. Immunity of Advocates-The History and Current Position
  1. Duty of care
  2. Breach
  3. Abuse of process
  4. Wasted costs
  F. Expert Witnesses
  1. nature and functions of expert witnesses
  2. history of expert witness immunity
  3. Obligations of experts
  4. Professional regulation of experts
  5. Professor Meadow as an example of the importance of competent expert evidence
  6. Regulating experts as experts
  7. Addressing expert bias and scientific uncertainty
  8. Uncertainty in the scientific process
  9. Criminal control mechanisms
  10. Human rights issues
  11. Abolition of the civil immunity benefitting expert witnesses
  12. Jones v Kaney
  13. future for experts
  14. Indemnity insurance
  15. Remaining protections
  A. Introduction
  B. General Nature of Academic Immunity
  C. Defamation
  1. Defamation Act 201
  D. Academic Freedom as a Form of Immunity
  1. purpose of academic freedom
  2. Beneficiaries of academic freedom
  3. nature of academic freedom
  4. Threats to academic freedom
  5. International recognition
  E. Intellectual Property Privileges
  A. Introduction
  B. Informed Consent and Truth Telling
  1. Contributory negligence and informed consent
  C. Breach of Duty-Bolam and Immunity
  1. Extending Bolam to questions of ethics
  D. Absence of Fiduciary Obligations
  E. Limited Human Rights Act Obligations
  F. Causation and the Protection of Medical Practitioners
  1. reasoning applied to claims against solicitors
  2. Medical cases-a more defendant friendly approach?
  3. Chester v Afihar-a move away from medical protection?
  A. Introduction
  B. Core Hill Immunity
  C. Developments Post-Hill
  D. Exceptions to Hill
  1. duty towards informants
  E. Misfeasance in Public Office
  F. Associated Protections-The Crown Prosecution Service
  G. Criminal Justice Act Protection
  H. Human Rights Issues
  1. Article 2 issues
  2. Article 6 issues
  I. Independent Police Complaints Commission
  A. Armed services and 'Combat Immunity'
  1. Combat immunity
  2. Privilege against defamation
  B. Fire Service
  1. Statutory provision
  C. Coastguard
  D. Ambulance Service
  E. Immigration Officers
  F. Future
  A. Introduction
  B. Child Welfare Case Examples
  C. Educational Professionals
  D. Human Rights and Public Body Immunities
  E. Other Protective Mechanisms
  1. Breach and causation
  2. Defamation
  F. Alternative Means of Redress and Proposals for Future Development
  1. Ombudsmen
  A. Introduction
  B. Accountants
  1. Accountants acting as receivers
  2. Accountants acting as auditors
  3. Auditors limiting liability
  C. Financial Services
  D. Solicitors
  1. Solicitors relying on the opinion of counsel
  2. Third-party obligations reconsidered from the perspective of immunity
  3. Privilege
  4. Defamation
  E. Parliamentary Privilege[
  ]Protecting MPs
  1. Potential reform
  F. Journalists and Privilege
  1. historical position
  2. Recent developments
  A. Is There a 'Law of Professional Immunities'?.