Causation in Negligence (Hart Studies in Private Law) - Softcover

Green, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509905030 ISBN 13: 9781509905034

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 1933

Synopsis

The principal objective of this book is simple: to provide a timely and effective means of navigating the current maze of case law on causation, in order that the solutions to causal problems might more easily be reached and the law relating to them more easily understood. The need for this has been increasingly evident in recent judgments dealing with causal issues: in particular, it seems to be ever harder to distinguish between the different 'categories' of causation and, consequently, to identify the legal test to be applied on any given set of facts. Causation in Negligence will make such identification easier, both by clarifying the parameters of each category and mapping the current key cases accordingly, and by providing one basic means of analysis which will make the resolution of even the thorniest of causal issues a straightforward process. The causal inquiry in negligence seems to have become a highly complicated and confused area of the law. As this book demonstrates, this is unnecessary and easily remedied.

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Review:

Causation in Negligence is a commendable effort to synthesise the "infamously baffling case law" and to construct "a simple analytical formulation which is capable of dealing with all aspects of the causal inquiry in negligence". -- Samuel Chan * Singapore Journal of Legal Studies *

About the Author:

Sarah Green is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 1933
• ISBN 10: 1509905030
• ISBN 13: 9781509905034
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202