Torts in commercial law / edited by Simone Degeling, James Edelman [and] James Goudkamp.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Lawbook Co., 2011.

1st edition

79704

Torts -- Australia.

Commercial law -- Australia.

Introduction

1. The foundations of torts in commercial law

Part I: Structure and statutes

2. Torts in commercial law: promiscuous entanglement or blessed union?

3. The divergence of the Australian and English law of torts

4. Tort's role in protecting privacy: current and future directions

5. Actionable interferences: a new perspective on the chattel torts

Part II: Economic torts and economic loss

6. The rise and fall of the economic torts

7. Causing loss by unlawful means: should the High Court of Australia follow OBG Ltd v Allan?

8. Principles for resolving hard cases of carelessly caused pure economic loss

9. Relational economic loss and indeterminacy: the search for rational limits

Part III: Insurance and the state

10. Tort, insurance, and the resources of private law

11. Misfeasance in public office: old tort, new tricks?

12. The tort liability of public authorities: the Canadian experience

Part IV: Causation, damages and defences

13. Causation in commercial law

14. Reflections on common sense causation in Australia

15. Comparing compensatory damages in tort and contract: some problematic issues

16. Restitutionary damages: the property puzzle

17. Vicarious liability, personal liability and exemplary damages

18. Exemplary damages

19. A taxonomy of tort law defences.

Table of contents is taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780455229232

xlv, 514 pages ; 25 cm