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• Title:Atiyah's accidents, compensation and the law / Peter Cane.
  
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• Author/Creator:Cane, Peter, 1950-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Atiyah, P. S.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD1975 .A96 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Accident law--Great Britain.
  Compensation (Law)--Great Britain.
  
• Edition:8th ed.
  
• Description:xxxiv, 508 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:Law in context.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107636323 (pbk)
  1107636329 (pbk)
  9781107035423 (hardback)
  1107035422 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I issues in perspective
  1. Introduction: surveying the field
  1.1. Compensation for accidents
  1.2. Natural and human causes
  1.2.1. issue
  1.2.2. Society's `responsibility' for human causes
  1.2.3. Protecting reasonable expectations
  1.2.4. Egalitarianism and the problem of drawing the line
  1.3. Mixed systems in a mixed society
  1.4. Some facts and figures
  1.4.1. Accidents causing personal injury or death
  1.4.2. Death and disability from other causes
  1.4.3. prevalence of disability
  1.4.4. effect of disability on income
  1.4.5. Distribution and sources of compensation
  1.4.6. more serious and the less serious
  pt. II tort system in theory
  2. Fault as a basis of liability
  2.1. conceptual basis of tort law
  2.2. Negligence as a basis of liability
  2.3. fault principle
  2.4. Negligence as fault
  2.4.1. question of fact?
  2.4.2. nature of negligence
  2.4.3. Probability of harm
  2.4.4. Likely magnitude of harm
  2.4.5. value of the activity and the cost of the precautions needed to avoid harm
  2.4.6. function of the negligence formula
  2.4.7. Foreseeability
  2.4.8. objective standard of care
  2.4.9. Negligence in design and negligence in operation
  2.5. Conduct of the claimant
  2.5.1. Contributory negligence
  2.5.2. Volenti non fit injuria
  2.5.3. Illegality
  3. scope of the tort of negligence
  3.1. nature of the duty of care
  3.2. Specific duty issues
  3.2.1. Common situations in which duties of care have been imposed
  3.2.2. distinction between acts and omissions
  3.3. Nervous shock
  3.4. Family claims
  4. Departures from the fault principle
  4.1. Fault liability and strict liability
  4.2. `Procedural' devices
  4.3. Breach of statutory duty
  4.4. Contractual duties
  4.5. Rylands v. Fletcher, nuisance and animals
  4.6. Joint liability
  4.7. Vicarious liability
  4.8. Products liability
  4.9. Proposals to extend strict liability
  4.9.1. Dangerous things and activities
  4.9.2. Railway accidents
  4.10. Ex gratia compensation schemes
  4.10.1. Vaccine damage
  4.10.2. HIV and hepatitis-C
  4.10.3. Variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)
  5. Causation and remoteness of damage
  5.1. Introduction
  5.2. Factual causation
  5.2.1. Proving causation
  5.2.2. Causing and increasing the risk of harm
  5.2.3. Omissions
  5.2.4. Multiple causal factors
  5.3. Limits on the liability of factual causes
  5.3.1. Legal causation
  5.3.2. Damage not within the risk
  5.3.3. Foreseeability again
  5.4. Conclusion
  6. Damages for personal injury and death
  6.1. lump sum: predicting the future
  6.1.1. Personal injury cases
  6.1.2. Fatal cases
  6.1.3. Variation of awards after trial
  6.1.4. Suitability of lump sums
  6.1.5. Alternatives to lump sums
  6.2. Full compensation
  6.2.1. Interest
  6.2.2. Lost earnings and support
  6.2.3. Medical and other expenses
  6.3. Full compensation for lost `earnings': is it justified?
  6.3.1. earnings-related principle
  6.3.2. 100-per-cent principle
  6.4. Full compensation: the commitment in practice
  6.5. Intangible losses
  6.5.1. Assessing intangible losses
  6.5.2. tariff system
  6.5.3. Subjective factors
  6.5.4. Should damages be payable for intangible losses?
  6.6. Overall maxima
  6.7. Punitive damages
  7. appraisal of the fault principle
  7.1. compensation payable bears no relation to the degree of fault
  7.2. compensation bears no relation to the means of the tortfeasor
  7.3. harm-doer may be held legally liable without being morally culpable and vice versa
  7.3.1. Collective liability
  7.3.2. objective definition of fault
  7.3.3. Moral culpability without legal liability
  7.3.4. fault principle and popular morality
  7.4. fault principle pays little attention to the conduct or needs of the victim
  7.5. Justice may require payment of compensation without fault
  7.6. Pragmatic objections to the fault principle
  7.7. fault principle contributes to a culture of blaming and discourages people from taking responsibility for their own lives'
  pt. III tort system in operation
  8. Claims and claimants
  8.1. Accident victims and tort claimants
  8.1.1. Cases reaching trial and set down for trial
  8.1.2. Actions commenced
  8.1.3. Tort claims, actual and potential
  8.2. Why do people (not) make tort claims?
  8.2.1. Some research findings
  8.2.2. Alternative remedies
  8.2.3. Claims consciousness
  8.3. Particular types of claims
  8.3.1. Road accidents
  8.3.2. Industrial injuries and illnesses
  8.3.3. Public liability claims
  8.3.4. Medical injuries
  8.3.5. Group claims
  9. Tortfeasors and insurers
  9.1. Defendants
  9.2. Individuals as tort defendants
  9.3. Employers and corporations as tort defendants
  9.4. Insurers
  9.5. nature of liability insurance
  9.6. Some problems of liability insurance
  9.7. First-party insurance for the benefit of others
  9.8. impact of liability insurance on the law
  9.8.1. Statutory provisions
  9.8.2. impact of insurance on the common law
  9.9. Motor Insurers' Bureau
  10. Settlements and trials
  10.1. importance of settlements
  10.2. Obtaining legal assistance and financing tort claims
  10.3. course of negotiations
  10.3.1. Individual claims
  10.3.2. Group claims
  10.4. When negotiations break down
  10.5. time taken to achieve a settlement
  10.6. amount of compensation
  pt. IV Other compensation systems
  11. First-party insurance
  11.1. Types of first-party insurance
  11.1.1. Injury and illness insurance
  11.1.2. Legal expenses insurance
  11.2. First-party injury and illness insurance compared with tort liability
  12. Compensation for criminal injuries
  12.1. Tort claims
  12.2. Compensation orders
  12.3. Other sources of compensation
  12.4. Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme
  12.4.1. Justifications for the CICS
  12.4.2. scope of the CICS
  12.4.3. Comparison between the CICS and tort liability
  12.4.4. Administration
  12.4.5. Claims consciousness
  13. Social security system
  13.1. Foundations of the social security system
  13.1.1. Workers' compensation
  13.1.2. National insurance
  13.2. Beveridge Report and the 1946 Acts
  13.3. Developments since 1946
  13.4. Industrial injuries benefits
  13.4.1. scope of the scheme
  13.4.2. Accidents and diseases
  13.4.3. Benefits
  13.5. Benefits for the disabled generally
  13.5.1. Statutory sick pay
  13.5.2. Employment and support allowance
  13.5.3. Personal independence payment
  13.6. Other benefits
  13.6.1. Carer's allowance
  13.6.2. Bereavement benefits
  13.6.3. Universal credit
  13.7. Administration
  13.8. tort system and the social security system compared
  13.9. Overpayment, error and fraud
  14. Other forms of assistance
  14.1. general legal environment
  14.2. taxation system
  14.3. Social services
  14.3.1. Employment
  14.3.2. Mobility
  14.3.3. Housing and residential accommodation
  14.3.4. Other social services
  14.4. Conclusion
  pt. V overall picture
  15. plethora of systems
  15.1. concept of over-compensation
  15.2. choice of compensation system
  15.3. Subrogation and recoupment
  15.4. Tort damages and other compensation
  15.4.1. General principles
  15.4.2. Tort damages and sick pay
  15.4.3. Tort damages and personal insurance
  15.4.4. Tort damages and charitable payments
  15.4.5. Tort damages and social security benefits
  15.5. Criminal injuries compensation
  16. cost of compensation and who pays it
  16.1. cost of tort compensation
  16.2. Costs not paid through the tort system
  16.2.1. cost of social services
  16.2.2. cost of the social security system
  16.2.3. Other sources of compensation
  16.2.4. Costs in perspective
  16.3. cost of criminal injuries compensation
  17. functions of compensation systems
  17.1. Compensation
  17.1.1. Some preliminary questions
  17.1.2. meaning of `compensation'
  17.1.3. Assessing compensation systems
  17.2. Distribution of losses
  17.2.1. What should be distributed?
  17.2.2. How should it be distributed?
  17.3. allocation of risks
  17.4. Punishment
  17.5. Corrective justice
  17.6. Vindication
  17.7. Deterrence and prevention
  17.7.1. Rules and standards of behaviour
  17.7.2. Accident prevention via insurance
  17.8. General deterrence
  17.8.1. basic idea
  17.8.2. Ascertaining the costs of an accident
  17.8.3. Allocation of costs to activities
  17.8.4. Responsiveness to price mechanism
  17.8.5. Applying general deterrence criteria in practice
  17.8.6. General deterrence and existing systems
  17.8.7. Air assessment of this Value of the general deterrence approach
  17.8.8. Conclusions about general deterrence
  pt. VI future
  18. Accident compensation in the twenty-first century
  18.1. Where we are now and how we got here
  18.2. Basic issues
  18.2.1. Strict liability or no-fault?
  18.2.2. Limited or comprehensive reform?
  18.2.3. Preferential treatment
  18.2.4. Assessment of compensation
  18.2.5. Funding
  18.2.6. Goals of the system
  18.3. Proposals and schemes
  Contents note continued: 18.3.1. Road accident schemes
  18.3.2. Other schemes
  18.4. way ahead
  18.4.1. social welfare solution
  18.4.2. private insurance solution
  18.5. Damage to property
  18.6. role of the insurance industry and the legal profession.