Product liability / by C J Miller and R S Goldberg.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.

2nd edition

24937

Products liability -- England.

Products liability -- Wales.

1. Introduction and modern historical outline

Pt. 1 Liability in contract and for misrepresentations

2. Privity of contract

3. Express warranties and misrepresentations

4. Implied terms as to correspondence with description, satisfactory quality, and fitness for purpose

5. Remedies for breach of the implied terms

6. Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms

Pt 2. Strict liability in tort

7. Introduction to strict product liability

8. Persons subject to liability

9. Products within the strict liability regime

10. The requirement of a defect: introductory issues

11. Manufacturing or production defects and design defects

12. Defects in warnings and instructions for use

13. Statutory defences to liability

Pt 3. Liability in tort for negligence

14. The producer's liability in negligence

15. The liability in negligence of persons other than producers

Pt 4. Liability in tort: issues common to strict liability and liability in negligence

16. The types of damage or loss compensated

17. Causation, remoteness of damage and defences

Pt 5. Conflict of laws

18. Product liability

Pt 6. Product safety and the criminal law

19. Provisions covering general product safety.

Includes index.

0198256787

ciii, 971 p.