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Exemplary Damages as Public Interest Damages: Implications for Rights of Action, Settlement and the Distribution of Awards

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 760-784, September 2026.
Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
wiley   +1 more source

Directors' Tortious Liability: A Study of Case in Hong Kong and England.

, 2011
The study investigates both of the Identification Approach and the Agency Approach, where director’s personal tortious liability is explained by the director is the company itself or simply an agent of the company.
CHEN, Bing, LIU, Shan
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LIABILITY

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Liability denotes the capacity of a legally competent person to distinguish permitted from prohibited acts and accordingly to be held accountable for them.
Marko Stanković, Tanja Varađanin, Marija Stanković   +2 more
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From Estimation to Discrimination: Algorithmic Bias, Predictive Uncertainty, and Anti‐Discrimination Law

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 4, Page 593-627, July 2026.
Machine learning (ML) systems, increasingly deployed in high‐stakes decision‐making, inherently produce uncertain outputs that can lead to unlawful discrimination. This article provides the first legal analysis of how predictive uncertainty in ML systems interacts with UK anti‐discrimination law under the Equality Act 2010.
Holli Sargeant
wiley   +1 more source

Common and civil law approaches to tort‐based corporate climate litigation: A comparative case law review

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 515-529, July 2026.
Abstract As corporate climate litigation intensifies globally, litigants consistently encounter the same procedural and substantive hurdles: duty of care, standing and causation. Success in navigating these hurdles has been sporadic, and most existing inquiry has sought to understand these trends according to geographical or case‐type lenses.
Calum MacLaren
wiley   +1 more source

Open content licensing of public sector information and the risk of tortious liability for Australian Governments [PDF]

, 2010
There has been an increasing interest by governments worldwide in the potential benefits of open access to public sector information (PSI). However, an important question remains: can a government incur tortious liability for incorrect information ...
Foong, Cheryl
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Legal imperatives of medical negligence and medical malpractice

Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2022
Medical negligence and malpractice are becoming a growing concern in Nigeria; even though many victims do not know how to go about seeking redress or demand justice, medical practitioners, too, do not understand the legal implications of their actions ...
Hassan King Obaro
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Who pays for PFAS contamination? A comparative analysis of environmental liability in the US and Sweden

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 240-253, April 2026.
Abstract Environmental liability systems worldwide face mounting challenges addressing contamination from persistent chemicals, particularly when contamination spans decades and involves activities that were legal when performed. This article examines how the US and Sweden allocate responsibility for contaminated site remediation through their distinct
Malin Johansson
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of a Pre‐Existing Defect on Liability for Property Damage: Taylor v Jones

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 2, Page 317-328, March 2026.
Taylor v Jones involved liability for causing damage to a building that had a pre‐existing defect. The defendant was in principle liable for the cost of repairing the damage. However, the Court of Appeal denied liability for the cost of repairing the pre‐existing defect even though such repair was necessary to restore the building to the state it would
Sirko Harder
wiley   +1 more source

Liability in tort for the acts of third parties: a search for coherence [PDF]

, 2003
The circumstances in English tort law in which one person may be held non-vicariously liable for the acts of another have been quietly expanding in recent years, to the point where third party liability can now be said to constitute a distinct category ...
McIvor, Claire Marie
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