Liability for negligent words /
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| Author / Creator: | Hocking, Barbara Ann |
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| Imprint: | Sydney, NSW : Federation Press, 1999. |
| Description: | xxiii, 264 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4355914 |
Table of Contents:
- Legal approaches to negligence and words
- Why words?
- Mere words?
- Competing tensions: Economic loss and economic reality
- Expansion and contraction: Go directly to Anns, pass
- Donoghue v Stevenson Resolving modern forms of informational injury
- Restricting and expanding liability
- Predictions and prognoses (aspects of medical negligence)
- The lawyer and the law
- Lender liability looms (The increasing extent of bank/lender/financier liability)
- Risky business
- Words and warnings of public authorities and figures
- Linking negligent words with trade practices claims
- Negligent words and communication of news
- The suspense accounts of contract and tort
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Bibliography
- Index
