Apportionment in private law

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TextSeries: Hart studies in private lawPublication details: London Bloomsbury 2018Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9781509917525

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Apportionment in private law; OriginalDDC classification:

346.03 23 BA-A

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Contents:

Apportionment in private law : nothing, all, or something in between? / Kit Barker -- Allocation of liability : principles, rhetoric and power / Richard Wright -- Full, no, or partial liability? : that is the question. some answers from a civilian perspective / Helmut Koziol -- Vicarious liability : a pailful of slops and other hazards / Warren Swain -- Accessories, joint or several liability and apportionment / Joachim Dietrich -- Contributory negligence and apportionment in Canadian tort law / Lewis Klar -- Contributory negligence and professional negligence : an empirical perspective / James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan -- Allocating the costs of making restitution : change of position / Ross Grantham -- Certainty in calculating monetary remedies for breach of fiduciary duty / Simone Degeling -- Contribution among wrongdoers : reducing the risk of contribution recovery shortfall and other issues / David Cheifetz -- Reforming a reform : why has it been so hard to reform proportionate liability reforms? / Barbara McDonald -- Causation and proportional recovery / Rob Merkin and Jenny Steele xx -- Justice between defendants : a New Zealand note on (non) law reform / Geoff McLay.

Summary: "This collection of essays investigates the way in which modern private law apportions responsibility between multiple parties who are (or may be) responsible for the same legal event. It examines both doctrines and principles that share responsibility between plaintiffs and defendants, on the one hand, and between multiple defendants, on the other. The doctrines examined include those 'originating' doctrines which operate to create shared liabilities in the first place (such as vicarious and accessorial liability); and, more centrally, those doctrines that operate to distribute the liabilities and responsibilities so created. These include the doctrine of contributory (comparative) negligence, joint and several (solidary) liability, contribution, reimbursement, and 'proportionate' liability, as well as defences and principles of equitable 'allowance' that permit both losses and gains to be shared between parties to civil proceedings. The work also considers the principles which apportion liability between multiple defendants and insurers in cases in which the cause, or timing, of a particular loss is hard to determine. The contributions to this volume offer important perspectives on the law in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a number of civilian jurisdictions. They explicate the main rules and trends and offer critical insights on the growth and distribution of shared responsibilities from a number of different perspectives - historical, comparative, empirical, doctrinal and philosophical."--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This collection of essays investigates the way in which modern private law apportions responsibility between multiple parties who are (or may be) responsible for the same legal event. It examines both doctrines and principles that share responsibility between plaintiffs and defendants, on the one hand, and between multiple defendants, on the other. The doctrines examined include those 'originating' doctrines which operate to create shared liabilities in the first place (such as vicarious and accessorial liability); and, more centrally, those doctrines that operate to distribute the liabilities and responsibilities so created. These include the doctrine of contributory (comparative) negligence, joint and several (solidary) liability, contribution, reimbursement, and 'proportionate' liability, as well as defences and principles of equitable 'allowance' that permit both losses and gains to be shared between parties to civil proceedings. The work also considers the principles which apportion liability between multiple defendants and insurers in cases in which the cause, or timing, of a particular loss is hard to determine. The contributions to this volume offer important perspectives on the law in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a number of civilian jurisdictions. They explicate the main rules and trends and offer critical insights on the growth and distribution of shared responsibilities from a number of different perspectives - historical, comparative, empirical, doctrinal and philosophical."--

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Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2018 dcunns

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