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Vicarious liability in tort : a comparative perspective /
"Vicarious liability is controversial: a principle of strict liability in an area dominated by fault-based liability. By making an innocent party pay compensation for the torts of another, it can also appear unjust. Yet it is a principle found in all Western legal systems, be they civil law or...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is vicarious liability?
- Establishing a general framework for liability
- The employer/employee relationship : identifying the contract of employment
- Special difficulties : borrowed employees and temporary workers
- Other relationships giving rise to liability
- Acting in the course of one's employment/functions/assigned tasks : determining the scope of vicarious liability
- Parental liability for the torts of their children : a new form of vicarious liability?
- Understanding vicarious liability : reconciling policy and principle
- A postscript : a harmonised European law of vicarious liability?