Essential Cases on the Limits of Liability.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winiger, Bénédict.

Askeland, Bjarte.

Bargelli, Elena.

Hogg, Martin.

Karner, Ernst.

Series:

Digest of European Tort Law, BAND ; 548

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liability (Law)--Europe.

Liability (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (854 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

This volume is part of the 'Digest of European Tort Law' series, focusing on the limits of liability in tort law across 27 European jurisdictions. It provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of cases, exploring principles such as remoteness, legal causation, protective purpose of norms, and reduction clauses. The book includes country-specific reports, historical introductions, and analyses of decisions by European courts and supranational frameworks like the Principles of European Tort Law (PETL) and the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR). It aims to assist judges, scholars, and practitioners in understanding diverse approaches to liability limitations in tort law while identifying similarities and differences across legal traditions. The work is intended for legal professionals, academics, and policymakers interested in European tort law and comparative legal studies. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Preface

Overview end Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Questionnaire

A. Introduction

1. General overview

B. Foreseeable and Unforeseeable Consequences

2. Is liability limited where the consequences are unforeseeable?

C. Protective Purpose of the Rule and Equivalent Concepts

3. Protective purpose of the conduct norm breached

4. Exclusion of liability for ‘indirect damage’ or ‘indirect victims’?

5. Lawful alternative conduct

6. Doctrine of ‘sufficient connection to target risk’ and related concepts

D. Losses and Additional Losses as a Result of Subsequent Conduct or Other Event

7. Losses and additional losses resulting from the misconduct of a third party

8. Losses and additional losses resulting from a decision of the injured party

9. Losses and additional losses from a natural event

E. Reduction Clauses

10. Limitation of liability by means of statutory reduction clauses?

F. Other Issues

11. Additional questions

Contributors

Publications

Index

Overview end Reports Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9783111001272

311100127X

OCLC:

1463088491