:Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change
/ Edited by T.T. Arvind and Jenny Steele
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon
: Hart Publishing
, 2013.
xliv, 502 p.
: , 25 cm.
"The papers in this book were initially presented at a workshop held at York Law School in May 2011" --p. [vii].
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Introduction : legislation and the shape of tort law /TT Arvind and Jenny Steele - Torts, courts and legislatures : comparative remarks on civil law codifications of tort law /Willem H. van Boom -Statutes and tort defences /James Goudkamp -The "compensation culture" and the politics of tort /Annette Morris -A civil law for the age of statutes /James Lee -Trade disputes legislation and the economic torts /Bob Simpson -The Fatal Accidents Act 1846 /Donal Nolan -Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 : collisions of a different sort /Jenny Steele -Occupiers' liability : the enactment of "common law" principles /S.H. Bailey -The Animals Act 1971 /Roderick Bagshaw -Tort and personal injuries, 1850 to the present /Steve Hedley -Tort law and workmen's compensation legislation : complementary or competing models? /Simon Deakin -Legislating for economic loss /Keith Stanton - Recovery of state benefits from tort damages : legislating for or against the welfare state? /Richard Lewis -Tort law and compulsory insurance /Rob Merkin and Sheila Dziobon -Tort law, regulation and river pollution : the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act and its implementation, 1876-1951 /Michael Lobban -Tort law, actors in the "enterprise economy", and articulations of nineteenth-century capitalism with law : the Fraudulent Trustees Act 1857 in context /Sarah Wilson -Occupying the field : tort and the pre-emptive statute /Maria Lee - Restraining the state through tort? : The Crown Proceedings Act in retrospect /T.T. Arvind -The Human Rights Act and its impact on the law of tort /Hugh Tomlinson -Bringing statute (back) onto the radar : implications /Jenny Steele.