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Rylands v Fletcher Redux: Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell is the most significant development in the law of Rylands v Fletcher for decades. Rejecting the view that the rule is merely a sub‐species of private nuisance, the Committee reconstructed it as an independent rule of strict liability governing harm caused by ...
Marco Cappelletti
wiley   +1 more source

Post‐Breach Events, Itemisation and the Avoided Loss Rule

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In English law, the following equation is used to compute damages awards: (a) loss sustained in consequence of the breach of duty (‘prima facie loss’) minus (b) benefits obtained as a result of the breach of duty = (c) net loss. This paper explores the manner in which prima facie loss is defined.
Melody Hadfield
wiley   +1 more source

Litigation Against Physicians Caring for Collegiate Athletes in the United States. [PDF]

open access: yesOrthop J Sports Med
O'Brien AC   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Medical Malpractice and Physician Liability Under a Negligence Rule [PDF]

open access: yes
A model of costly medical malpractice claims, based on Bayes Rule, is developed to examine the effects of physicians being liable for actual damage under a negligence rule. This model is consistent with empirical evidence concerning the pattern of claims.
Wright, Donald J.
core  

School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
wiley   +1 more source

Medicolegal Aspects of Neurosurgery in India: A Narrative Review. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus
Sathia Prabhu A   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

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