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Comparing tort and crime : learning from across and within legal systems / edited by Matthew Dyson.
Contributor(s): Dyson, Matthew [editor.]
.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: liv, 502 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107080485.Subject(s): Torts | Crime | Comparative lawDDC classification: 345 Summary: "What is the purpose of tort law and criminal law, and how do you tell the difference between them? Do criminal lawyers and civil lawyers reason and argue in the same way? Are the rules on capacity, consent, fault, causation, secondary liability or defences the same in tort as in crime? How do the rules of procedure operate for each area? Are there points of overlap? When, how and why do tort and crime interact? This volume systematically answers these and other questions for eight legal systems: England, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, the Netherlands and Australia"-- Provided by publisher (reduced).
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 345 COM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 011121 |
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"What is the purpose of tort law and criminal law, and how do you tell the difference between them? Do criminal lawyers and civil lawyers reason and argue in the same way? Are the rules on capacity, consent, fault, causation, secondary liability or defences the same in tort as in crime? How do the rules of procedure operate for each area? Are there points of overlap? When, how and why do tort and crime interact? This volume systematically answers these and other questions for eight legal systems: England, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, the Netherlands and Australia"-- Provided by publisher (reduced).