Unravelling tort and crime / edited by Matthew Dyson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dyson, Matthew, 1982- editor.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Cambridge private law

Cambridge private law4901

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torts--England.

Torts.

Criminal law--England.

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 432 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Unravelling Tort & Crime

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Tort law and criminal law are closely bound together but their relationship rarely receives sustained and rigorous scrutiny. This is the first significant project in England and Wales to address that shortcoming. Building on growing interest amongst both academics and practitioners in the relationship between tort and crime, it draws together leading experts to chart the field and explore key points of interest. It uses a range of perspectives from legal theory, doctrine, legal history and comparative law to address some of the most important and interesting links between tort and crime. Examples include how the illegality defence operates to avoid stultification of the law, the difference between criminal and civil causation, how the Motor Insurers' Bureau not only insures but acts to enforce laws and alter behaviour, and why civil law only very rarely restores specific property but the criminal law does it daily.

Contents:

Disentangling and organising tort and crime / Matthew Dyson

Policing tort and crime with the MIB : remedies, penalties and the duty to insure / Rob Merkin and Jenny Steele

Tort law and criminal law in an age of austerity / Nicholas J. McBride

Wrongs and responsibility for wrongs in crime and tort / G.R. Sullivan

Private rights and public wrongs / Robert Stevens

Torts, crimes, and vindication : whose wrong is it? / R.A. Duff

Illegality's role in the law of torts / Graham Virgo

Defences in tort and crime / James Goudkamp

Causation in tort law and criminal law : unity or divergence? / Sandy Steel

Complicity / Paul S. Davies

Civil liability for crimes / J.R. Spencer

Consent and assumption of risk in tort and criminal law / Kenneth W. Simons

The interaction of crime and delict in Scotland / John Blackie

The properties of the law : restoring personal property through crime and tort / Matthen Dyson and Sarah Green.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-98643-0

1-139-99106-X

1-316-01164-X

1-316-01388-X

1-316-00264-0

1-107-58882-0

1-316-00714-6

1-316-00938-6

1-316-00488-0

9781107588820 (electronic book)