Professional Negligence in UK Law
- Review: Professional Negligence
- Professional Negligence: Some Further Limiting Factors
- Professional Negligence And The Quality Of Legal Services–‐An Economic Perspective
- Medical Manslaughter: The Effect of Lay Findings of (Criminal) Gross Negligence on Professional Tribunals
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Being negligent and liable: a challenge for information professionals
In recent years, increasing attention appears to have been paid by information professionals to issues of professional negligence and liability. Key legal issues are discussed, and negligence and l...... ... with the contract in sale of goods,product liability, and professional negligence.Legally, these take us firmly into the area ofThe authorStuart ... ...
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Australia and Canada: The Role of Policy in Professional Liability
The term ‘policy’ as used by the judges is mainly concerned with whether third parties should be allowed to recover economic loss suffered by them as a result of professional negligence. The answer...... ... is mainly con-cerned with whether third parties should be allowed to recover economic loss suffered by them as a result of professional negligence. The answers to the ques-tion of recovery of economic loss in negligence are not easy, as judges seem to be divided on this issue. Some judges feel ... ...
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Expert valuation witnesses in the UK – problems and solutions
This paper addresses the performance, training and organisation of expert valuation witnesses in the UK. Previous research, based on analysis of professional negligence cases in the UK courts, had ...... ... in research into the ``margin of error'' concept in UKvaluation negligence cases, raised major questions over the performance ofexpert witnesses in ... It thenexamines the duties, both legal and professional, of expert witnesses and goeson to outline the specific research issues ... ...
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: Le Divorce, La Séparation de Corps et Leurs Effets en Droit International Privé Français et Anglais. (Étude de Droit Comparé.) By Peter Benjamin, m.a., ll.b. (Cantab....... ... xvi and 719 pp. 60s. 1 F. A. MA”. PEOFES~IONAI, NEGLIGENCE. By J. P. EDDY, Q.c., with a Foreword by SIB ALFRED -0 ... ...
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The negligent valuation of contaminated land?
There has been much discussion in the academic and practitioner press about the valuation of contaminated land. Most of this discussion has centred upon the various techniques that can be used to d...... ... ),there has been little discussion about the possibility of negligence being committed by valuers ofcontaminated land. The professional body ... ...
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Doctors Are Aggrieved—Should They Be? Gross Negligence Manslaughter and the Culpable Doctor
Doctors may also be criminals. Mercifully, this is a rare event but no health professional is infallible, mistakes happen and the challenge is to distinguish inadvertence from wilful disregard for ...... ... Mercifully, this is a rare event but no health professional is infallible, mistakes happen and the challenge is to distinguish inadvertence from wilful disregard for the consequences. Healthcare professionals ... ...
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