• The European Group on Tort Law, sometimes called the Spier/Koziol group, is an academic group devoted to revising tort principles that are supposed to...
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  • European tort law, as a term, is not strictly defined and is used to describe a number of various features concerning tort law in Europe. The concept developed...
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  • based in Union Law. Within the European Union and neighbouring countries, the European Group on Tort Law promotes the harmonisation of tort law within the...
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  • European tort and insurance law is the most ambitious goal which the founders of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, the European Group on...
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    Tort reform consists of changes in the civil justice system in common law countries that aim to reduce the ability of plaintiffs to bring tort litigation...
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    English tort law concerns the compensation for harm to people's rights to health and safety, a clean environment, property, their economic interests, or...
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  • The system of tort law in Australia is broadly similar to that in other common law countries. However, some divergences in approach have occurred as its...
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  • In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate...
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  • drafted common principles, including Principles of European Contract Law and Principles of European Tort Law that are common to member states. In absence of...
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  • includes the law of contracts, delicts (or torts) and restitution. It was from work on European contract law that the push for a comprehensive European civil...
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  • Malaysia's existing legal system was based primarily on English common law. The following common law torts are related to personal information privacy and...
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  • Negligence (redirect from Negligence tort)
    expected to be exercised in similar circumstances. Within the scope of tort law, negligence pertains to harm caused by the violation of a duty of care...
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  • that the European Convention on Human Rights does not require the development of an independent tort of privacy. In the absence of a common law right to...
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    Contract (redirect from Contract law)
    contrasted with tort law (also referred to in some jurisdictions as the law of delicts), the other major area of the law of obligations. While tort law generally...
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  • represented publicly without permission. In common law jurisdictions, publicity rights fall into the realm of the tort of passing off. A commonly cited justification...
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    exist, a tort has not been committed since the rationale of tort law is to provide a remedy to the person who has been wronged. While Indian tort law is generally...
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  • Trespass (category Tort law)
    Trespass is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person (see below), trespass to chattels, and trespass to land. Trespass...
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  • the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg added to the criticism of awards given by juries. Defamation is a curious part of the law of tort in this...
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    on any federal constitutional rights. Thus U.S. law (especially the actual "living law" of contract, tort, property, probate, criminal and family law...
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    for torts committed in violation of international law. It was first introduced by the Judiciary Act of 1789 and is one of the oldest federal laws still...
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  • Res ipsa loquitur (category Tort law)
    accident or injury in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendant behaved in the context of tort litigation. The crux of res ipsa loquitur is circumstantial...
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  • Wooldridge F, (eds), Groups of Companies (Sweet & Maxwell 1991) Blumberg PI, The Law of Corporate Groups: Tort, Contract and Other Common Law Problems in the...
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    liability in common law jurisdictions, Wikipedia has articles discussing conflict of tort laws, European tort law, and Tort Law in China, only using...
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    criminal law; while private law deals with legal disputes between parties in areas such as contracts, property, torts, delicts and commercial law. This distinction...
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  • The tort of deceit is a type of legal injury that occurs when a person intentionally and knowingly deceives another person into an action that damages...
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    internal files. Some areas of French law even primarily consist of case law. For example, tort liability in private law is primarily elaborated by judges...
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    liable for the loss caused by the act." Tort law was gradually developed largely based on case law, including cases on pollution. Statutes outside the Civil...
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    Cote d'Ivoire) Civil law notary International Roman Law Moot Court List of national legal systems Rule according to higher law Tort Alphabetical Index of...
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  • and Welsh common law of tort it was possible from the early seventeenth century for a spouse to prosecute an adulterer for damages on the grounds of loss...
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  • Class action (redirect from Mass Tort)
    Archived 2006-12-03 at the Wayback Machine "FindLaw Class Action and Mass Tort Center: Legal Research: Cohelan on California Class Actions". Classaction.findlaw...
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