Economic Torts in UK Law
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Rethinking the Economic Torts
We propose a revised conceptual basis for the economic torts which is true to their historical role of regulating the competitive process. Claims that the economic torts are part of a wider princip...
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Reviews
Books reviewed: Foster, The Ethics of Medical Research on Humans Vidmar, World Jury Systems Simpson, Human Rights and the End of Empire. Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention Carty, An...... ... Conor Gearty* Hazel Carty , An Analysis of the Economic Torts , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xxx + 295pp, hb £40.00 ... ...
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Reviews
Books reviewed: McCoubrey: The Obligations to Obey in Legal Theory Halpin: Rights and Law: Analysis and Theory Harrison: Good Faith in Sales Weir: Economic Torts Prosser: Law and the Regulators Goo...... ... Roger Brownsword* Tony Weir , Economic Torts , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, xiii + 130pp, hb £17.99. Weir’s ... ...
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Libel: Its Purpose and Reform
Discussion of libel often fails to define defamation law's purpose and thus properly to assess its value. This article argues that defamation's purpose relates to fundamental human interests in soc...... ... ’ libel, ho wever , often protects not sociality but purely economic interests.The article thereforeargues that the protection of libel law , s opposed to that offered b y malicious falsehood and the economic torts, should be withdrawn from purely economic reputation,starting with ... ...
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: ENGLISH COURTS OF LAW. By H. G. Hanbury, D.C.L. LEGAL EFFECTS OF WAR. By Sir A. D. McNair NEW HORIZONS IN CRIMINOLOGY. By Harry Elmer Barnes and Negley K. Teeters A G...... ... an excellent introduction to the multitude of social, economic, administrative and legal problems with which a public ... THE ELEMJDJTS OF THE LAW OF TORTS. By A. RAYMOND BLACKBURN, LL.B., and EDWARD F. GEORGE, LL.B., ... ...
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STATUTES
... ... Act so as to extend immunity against the following torts, provided that they occur “in contem- plation or ... or furtherance of a trade dispute and that the economic torts could be resurrected against such action. Secondary boycotts ... ...
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Analysis
... ... J Thomson, “Redrawing the landscape of the economic wrongs” (2008) 12 EdinLR 267; H Carty, “The economic torts in the 21st ... ...
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Understanding Intimidation
This article examines the gist, vitality and practical utility of the tort of intimidation and identifies what count as unlawful threats and as actionable harm. While two versions of the tort have ...... ... of contract via the doctrines of anticipatory breach, duress and economic duress. The article concludes with two radical suggestions. First, that ... 9 As to jurists, see, eg, J. D. Heydon, Economic Torts (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1978) 64; A. Dugdale and M. Jones (eds), ... ...
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Books Received
... ... DEMSETZ, Ernest GELLHORN, and Nelson LUND (eds.), Supreme Court Economic Review (vol. 5), Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997, $4500. David ... 311 © Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1998 ... Tony WEIR, Economic Torts, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997, n.p.g. Paul J. WEITHMAN (ed.), Religion ... ...
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Reviews
Legal History Studies 1972. Edited by Dafydd Jenkins. A History of Contract at Common Law. By S. J. Stouar. [Australian National University Press. An Essay on a Contemporary Jurisprudence. By Peter...... ... Hardback €11; paperback €750.1 CLERK AND LINDSELL ON TORTS. Fourteenth edition. General editors SIR ARTHUR ARMITAGE AND R ... STEPHEN WIiIlE. INSTRUMENTS OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN LATIN AMERICA AND IK THE CARIBBEAN. Prepared by ... ...
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