Tort Law in UK Law
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Tort Law for Cynics
Tort scholars have in recent years defended a ‘traditional’ or ‘idealist’ view of tort law. In the context of negligence this implies that the holder of a duty of care must make an effort not to vi...
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Tort Law Culture: Image and Reality
This article highlights two contrasting images of tort. The first reflects the traditional portrayal of justice, depicting tort as an independent ‘natural’ system of rules of universal application ...
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Corrective and Distributive Justice in Tort Law
Liability in tort law is traditionally justified by the notion of corrective justice, but what about the role of distributive justice? This simple question brings up fundamental issues, such as exa...
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Justifying Exceptions to Proof of Causation in Tort Law
This article defends a set of exceptions to the general rule in tort law that a claimant must prove that a particular defendant's wrongful conduct was a cause of its injury on the balance of probab...
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On Mothers, Babies and Bathwater: Distributive Justice, Tort Law and Prenatal Duties
In this article I seek to apply a general claim about tort law - that it should promote as one of its goals a better attainment of distributive justice - to the cont...
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Street‐Level Tort Law: The Bureaucratic Justice of Liability Decision‐Making
Most legal scholarship on tort focuses primarily on judicial decisions, but this represents only a limited aspect of tortious liability. The vast majority of decisions concerning tortious liability...
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‘In this Day and Age’: Social Facts, Common Sense and Cognition in Tort Law Judging in the United Kingdom
Tort law judging in the United Kingdom includes judicial ‘truth claims’ or ‘social facts’ about the world, society, and institutional and human behaviour. Although corrective justice and rights sch...
- Book Review: Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law
- Book Review: Unification of Tort Law: Causation
- The Old and New Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law
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