Paula Giliker

Vicarious Liability in Tort

A Comparative Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed examination of the principle of vicarious liability in tort in both common and civil law legal systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781107627482
• ISBN-10: 1107627486
• Artikelnr.: 39533968

Autorenporträt

Paula Giliker is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Bristol, where she specialises in comparative tort law. She has previously taught at the University of Oxford and Queen Mary, University of London. She is also a qualified barrister and visiting lecturer at the Universities of Hong Kong and Valencia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is vicarious liability?
2. Establishing a general framework for liability
3. The employer/employee relationship: identifying the contract of employment
4. Special difficulties: borrowed employees and temporary workers
5. Other relationships giving rise to liability
6. Acting in the course of one's employment/functions/assigned tasks: determining the scope of vicarious liability
7. Parental liability for the torts of their children: a new form of vicarious liability?
8. Understanding vicarious liability: reconciling policy and principle
9. A postscript: a harmonised European law of vicarious liability?
Annex: Key provisions of the French and German Civil Codes.