Concurrent Wrongdoers in UK Law
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Damages
... ... an efective cause of the loss, the causes will be regarded as concurrent causes of the loss, and each person whose breach caused the loss will be ... determining liability as between concurrent wrongdoers, and a concurrent wrongdoer is only liable for what may be described as ... ...
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The Old and New Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law
... ... , the reconciliation of the parties (or getting even), holding wrongdoers responsible , and so on. The purpose of this commentary is to briefly ... 9 Products liability is a good example. As Traynor J’ s concurrent opinion in Escola v Coca Cola Bottling Co 24 Cal 2d 453, 150 P2d 436 ... ...
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A STEP FORWARD IN FACTUAL CAUSATION
... ... Carpenter, ‘‘ Concurrent Causation ’’ (1935) 83 U.Pa.L.R. 941, 948. 16 Cf. Becht ... borne by the innocent victim rather than the wrongdoers merely because the multiplicity of the latter prevents ... ...
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Armed conflict and post-conflict justice, 1946–2006
This article introduces a new dataset on post-conflict justice (PCJ) that provides an overview of if, where, and how post-conflict countries address the wrongdoings committed in association with pr...... ... because they fear severe punishment.Failing to punish wrongdoers could seed resentmentand potentially provoke retributive violence by ... country-year data structure makes it difficultin countries with concurrent conflicts to ascertain whichspecific conflict the transitional justice ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... , because the sentence passed on this count was merely concurrent with the others, and, therefore, there is no prejudice to the ... RECENT JUDICIAL DECISIONS 255 to exclude thieves and wrongdoers from his property, and this confers on him a special property in ... ...
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COOK v. LEWIS RE‐EXAMINED
... ... 29 In Summers v. Tice tha court said that the wrongdoers are in no position to complain of uncertainty. The same ... that both or all of the defendants were several concurrent tortfeasor~.~~ Here A and B 33 George Monroe, Ltd. v. The ... ...
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The Advantages of a Dual System: Parallel Streams of Civil and Criminal Enforcement of the US Securities Laws
In a high‐profile case that first drew big media headlines last February, a New York brokerage firm and a ring of eight brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange were charged with perpetr...... ... to our practice today of imposing stiff monetary penalties on wrongdoers in many different civil contexts. In the US, for instance, we make insider ... D. (1978) 'Comment: Federal Discovery in Concurrent Criminal and Civil Proceedings', Tul. L Rev., Vol. 52, pp. 770-781 (1978) ... ...
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Replacing Safe Havens with a Safe System
In recent weeks, there has been a major crash in the middle of the financial services electronic highway, and hundreds of millions of people are already feeling the shock from the impact, even if t...... ... This need not involve conditionality, but instead concurrent initia-tives such as agreement to strengthen the role of central banks in ... found that criminal and civil action against private sector wrongdoers is a remarkably effective mechan-ism to transform industry-wide standards ... ...
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National criminal jurisdiction over transnational financial crimes
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the international standards for establishing national jurisdiction over the transnational crimes of money laundering and bribery and identify challe...... ... of jurisdictionover these offences, for example, jurisdictional concurrent.2. Transnational money launderingDespite different definitions, money ... , and retains its respect internationally bypunishing its own wrongdoers (Blakesley and Lagodny, 1991, p. 25). A state can, based onallegiance, ... ...
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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 ...... ... , I shall begin with the general matter of whether potential, concurrent liability in tort and contract is as problematic as some writers suppose ... in OBG v Allan ) and the present situation where two wrongdoers ... ...
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