Liability for Negligent Misstatements

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-925010-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 954 g

This new book is the first comprehensive and integrated account of the law on liability for negligent misstatements. Designed as a comprehensive guide for practitioners, it outlines the essential issues that must be considered in determining whether a client will have a cause of action for negligent misstatement. It will also discuss in detail those issues that are likely to prove most contentious.

In England, liability for negligent misstatements provides the most important form of tortious redress for financial losses. The examination of this complex law takes place at a number of levels.

First, the book attempts to unravel the 'three-stage test' which provides the conceptual framework within which duties of care are analysed in tort. An account of the function of each stage of the test is offered. Second, the book defines what constitutes 'physical damage' and 'pure economic loss' and examines the major ways in which the latter kind of loss arises. Third, the book outlines the elements of liability in physical damage and pure economic loss cases. The treatment of liability by negligent misstatements is completed with a full discussion of breach, causation, and the defences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Witting, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Schuldrecht Haftpflichtrecht, Deliktsrecht, Produkthaftungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht Handelsrecht, HGB, Handelsvertreter- und -maklerrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I: THE FRAMEWORK

- 1: Introduction

- 2: The Duty of Care Framework

- 3: Duty of Care and Policy

- PART II: PHYSICAL HARM

- 4: Physical Damage

- 5: Misstatements Causing Physical Damage

- 6: Negligent Communication of Distressing Information

- PART III: ECONOMIC LOSS

- 7: Economic Loss

- 8: Misstatements Causing Economic Loss: Antecedents

- 9: Misstatements Causing Economic Loss: Orthodox Principles

- 10: Misstatements Causing Economic Loss: Compulsion and Inducement

- 11: Misstatements Causing Economic Loss: 'Extended Hedley Byrne' Liability

- 12: Economic Loss and Contract

- PART IV: COMPLETING A CAUSE OF ACTION

- 13: Standard of Care and Breach

- 14: Causation of Damage

- 15: Parties

- PART V: DEFENCES

- 16: Defences

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Christian Witting is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne School of Law. He has previously lectured at Nottingham University and Leicester University, and practised as a solicitor in the Commonwealth of Australia Attorney-General's Department. He is the co-author of 'Pure Economic Loss'.