Tortious Liability of Statutory Bodies: a Comparative and Economic Analysis of Five Cases

Sir Basil S. Markesinis

ISBN 10: 1841131245 / ISBN 13: 9781841131245

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1999

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• Titel: Tortious Liability of Statutory Bodies: a Comparative and Economic Analysis of Five Cases
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1841131245
• ISBN-13: 9781841131245
• Einband: Hardback
• Zustand: New
• Gewicht: 390 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

In a number of important decisions such as Stovin V. Wise, X v. Bedfordshire, Barrett v. Enfield London Borough Council and others, English courts have been forced to grapple with the important issues of tortious liability of statutory bodies. Following the HILL decision, they opted for a wide non-liability rule on a variety of policy and economic efficiency grounds. Yet many of their arguments have been considered and rejected by both German and French courts when deciding factually equivalent situations. This study analyzes five leading English cases in a comparative and economic way and questions the validity of their assumptions as well as their arguments in the light of the recent important decision of the Strasgbourg Court of Human Rights in Osman v. UK. This thought-provoking book, written by two English academics from Foxford and Cambridge Universities, in collaboration with two leading authorities from the Universities of Paris and Munich, should provide food for thought for judges, practitioners, academics and students for years to come. This book will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners interested in public law, human rights, comparative methodology, and tort law.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sir Basil Markesinis KC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn. Photo by Wyatt McSpadden.

Dagmar Coester-Waltjen is Ordinarius Professor of Comparative Law at the Ludwig-Maxmillians University of Munich and Director of the University’s Institute of International and Foreign Law.

Jean-Bernard Auby is Full Professor, and Director of the Center on Changes in Governance and Public Law, at Sciences Po, Paris.

Simon Deakin is Professor of Law and Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.