TY - BOOK AU - Arvind,T.T. AU - Steele,Jenny ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Tort law and the legislature: common law, statute and the dynamics of legal change AV - K923 .T678 2013 U1 - 346.03 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford, Portland, Or. PB - Hart Pub. KW - Torts KW - Great Britain KW - Law KW - Interpretation and construction KW - Electronic books N1 - "The papers in this book were initially presented at a workshop held at York Law School in May 2011" --p. [vii]; Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-493) and index; Introduction : legislation and the shape of tort law; TT Arvind and Jenny Steele -- Torts, courts and legislatures : comparative remarks on civil law codifications of tort law; Willem H. van Boom --; Statutes and tort defences; James Goudkamp --; The "compensation culture" and the politics of tort; Annette Morris --; A civil law for the age of statutes; James Lee --; Trade disputes legislation and the economic torts; Bob Simpson --; The Fatal Accidents Act 1846; Donal Nolan --; Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 : collisions of a different sort; Jenny Steele --; Occupiers' liability : the enactment of "common law" principles; S.H. Bailey --; The Animals Act 1971; Roderick Bagshaw --; Tort and personal injuries, 1850 to the present; Steve Hedley --; Tort law and workmen's compensation legislation : complementary or competing models?; Simon Deakin --; Legislating for economic loss; Keith Stanton --; Recovery of state benefits from tort damages : legislating for or against the welfare state?; Richard Lewis --; Tort law and compulsory insurance; Rob Merkin and Sheila Dziobon --; Tort law, regulation and river pollution : the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act and its implementation, 1876-1951; Michael Lobban --; Tort law, actors in the "enterprise economy", and articulations of nineteenth-century capitalism with law : the Fraudulent Trustees Act 1857 in context; Sarah Wilson --; Occupying the field : tort and the pre-emptive statute; Maria Lee --; Restraining the state through tort? : The Crown Proceedings Act in retrospect; T.T. Arvind --; The Human Rights Act and its impact on the law of tort; Hugh Tomlinson --; Bringing statute (back) onto the radar : implications; Jenny Steele; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1772972 ER -