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Table of Statutory Instruments |
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Table of Conventions and European Legislation |
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1 Nature and Functions of the Law of Tort |
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A Aims of the Law of Tort |
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1 | (2) |
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B Definition of Tortious Liability |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (4) |
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D Concurrent Liability in Tort and Contract |
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8 | (4) |
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E Tort and Unjust Enrichment |
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12 | (1) |
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F Tort and Equitable Wrongs |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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2 Foundation of Tortious Liability |
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17 | (3) |
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3 Tort and Other Sources of Compensation |
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20 | (10) |
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A Damage to Property: Tort and Insurance |
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21 | (3) |
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B Personal Injuries and Death |
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24 | (1) |
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C Private Insurance, Occupational Pensions, etc. |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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i Non-industrial Injuries |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (1) |
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E Recovery of Social Security Payments |
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29 | (1) |
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4 Paying for the Tort System |
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30 | (4) |
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5 Criticisms of the Tort System in the Context of Personal Injuries |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (3) |
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C Tort and Responsibility |
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38 | (2) |
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D Expense and Inefficiency |
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40 | (3) |
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43 | (7) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (4) |
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49 | (1) |
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7 Tort and the Compensation Culture |
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2 The Structure Of Tort Law |
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1 | (5) |
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2 New Influences on English Tort Law |
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A The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act |
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6 | (9) |
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15 | (3) |
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18 | (1) |
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4 Torts Not Treated im this Book |
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3 Foundational Concepts In Tort Law |
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2 | (4) |
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6 | (5) |
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11 | (1) |
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4 Trespass To The Person And Related Matters |
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1 | (1) |
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2 General Principles of Trespass to the Person |
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2 | (5) |
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7 | (11) |
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18 | (5) |
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23 | (8) |
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6 Acts Intended to Cause Physical Harm Other than Trespass to the Person |
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31 | (3) |
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7 Protection from Harassment Act 1997 |
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34 | (6) |
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8 Harassment under the Equality Act 2010 |
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5 Negligence: Duty Of Care |
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1 | (5) |
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2 Duty of Care: General Principles |
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6 | (9) |
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B Law Prior to Anns V Merton |
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15 | (2) |
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C Law as Stated in Anns V Merton |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (8) |
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E The Stages of the Caparo Test |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (3) |
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iii Fair, Just and Reasonable |
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31 | (6) |
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F Criticism of the Duty of Care Concept |
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37 | (1) |
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3 Duty of Care: Specific Problems |
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39 | (1) |
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i Cases Where There is Not a True Omission |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (7) |
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iii Dangerous Situation Created by Defendant |
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48 | (1) |
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B Assumption of Responsibility |
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49 | (8) |
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57 | (4) |
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i Pure Economic Loss Resulting from Damage to Property Belonging to a Third Party or from Injury to a Third Party |
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61 | (3) |
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ii Defects of Quality in Goods or Property Supplied |
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64 | (1) |
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D Negligence and Public Authorities |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (6) |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (4) |
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81 | (2) |
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i A Recognised Psychiatric Illness |
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83 | (1) |
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ii Claimant Physically Threatened by the Negligence---a Primary Victim |
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84 | (4) |
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iii Claimant a Witness of Danger to Others---a Secondary Victim |
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88 | (4) |
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iv Participants other than Mere Bystanders |
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92 | (2) |
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v Claimant Shocked by Defendant's Exposure of Himself to Danger |
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94 | (1) |
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6 Negligence: Breach Of Duty |
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1 | (5) |
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2 The Qualities of the Reasonable Person |
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6 | (13) |
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3 How Much Care would the Reasonable Person have Taken? |
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19 | (11) |
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4 Proving that the Defendant Fell Below the Standard of the Reasonable Person |
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7 Negligence: Causation And Remoteness (Scope Of Liability) |
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1 Terminology and Classification |
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2 | (5) |
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7 | (22) |
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8 | (6) |
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B Proof, Uncertainty and Causation |
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14 | (10) |
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ii What Would Have Happened? |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (4) |
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3 Remoteness of Damage (Scope of Liability) |
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30 | (7) |
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B Application of Foreseeability |
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37 | (6) |
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C Claimant's Lack of Means |
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43 | (3) |
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46 | (1) |
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i Intended Consequences and Intentional Wrongdoers |
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47 | (1) |
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ii Intervening Acts or Events |
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48 | (10) |
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8 Breach Of Statutory Duty And Misfeasance In A Public Office |
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1 Breach of Statutory Duty |
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1 | (3) |
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4 | (11) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (8) |
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2 Misfeasance in a Public Office |
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1 | (6) |
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7 | (10) |
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18 | (7) |
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25 | (4) |
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10 Liability For Land And Structures |
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1 | (1) |
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2 Liability of Occupiers to Visitors |
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2 | (32) |
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A Scope of the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 |
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3 | (3) |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (6) |
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13 | (9) |
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E Personal Responsibility: Tomlinson's Case |
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22 | (1) |
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F Contributory Negligence |
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23 | (1) |
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G Volenti non fit injuria |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (4) |
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I Effect of Contract on Occupier's Liability to Third Parties |
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29 | (4) |
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33 | (1) |
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3 Liability to Trespassers and other Non-Visitors |
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34 | (12) |
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4 Liability of Vendors and Lessors |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (8) |
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56 | (4) |
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11 Liability For Defective Products |
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1 Liability at Common Law |
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2 | (13) |
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4 | (3) |
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B Extension of Subject Matter |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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D Possibility of Alternative Cause |
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9 | (1) |
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E Intermediate Examination |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (4) |
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2 Liability under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 |
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15 | (28) |
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19 | (4) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (3) |
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iii Warnings and Instructions |
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30 | (1) |
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E The Development Risks Defence |
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31 | (3) |
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34 | (6) |
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G Contributory Negligence |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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12 Liability For Statements |
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1 | (1) |
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2 | (21) |
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A A False Statement of Fact |
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5 | (8) |
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B The Fraudulent State of Mind |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (3) |
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18 | (4) |
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22 | (1) |
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3 Liability for Negligent Misstatement |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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D Public Officers and Bodies |
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28 | (1) |
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E Hedley Byrne and Contract Relations |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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H Advice Informally Given |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (6) |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (4) |
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M Reliance and Contributory Negligence |
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48 | (2) |
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N Injury to Persons Not Relying on the Statement |
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50 | (4) |
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13 Defamation, Privacy And Related Matters |
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1 | (1) |
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2 | (12) |
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ii Reference to the Claimant |
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14 | (6) |
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20 | (11) |
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31 | (6) |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (12) |
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52 | (9) |
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iii Qualified Privilege at Common Law |
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61 | (10) |
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iv Qualified Privilege under Statute |
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71 | (5) |
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v Publication on a Matter of Public Interest |
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76 | (8) |
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vi Innocent Dissemination |
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84 | (6) |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (9) |
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x Apology and Payment into Court |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (7) |
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110 | (1) |
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xiii Apology is Not a Defence |
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111 | (1) |
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C Procedure in Defamation |
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112 | (4) |
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116 | (10) |
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126 | (1) |
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iii Publication of Summary of the Court's Judgment |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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v Remedies that are Not Available |
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129 | (1) |
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vi Is the Focus on Damages Satisfactory? |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (12) |
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A The Making of a False Statement to some Person other than the Claimant |
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133 | (6) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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A The Indirect Impact of Other Torts |
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144 | (3) |
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B The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Data Protection Act 1998 |
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147 | (4) |
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C Misuse of Private Information |
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1 | (3) |
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4 | (6) |
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10 | (7) |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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C Interference with Airspace |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (2) |
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17 | (6) |
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23 | (5) |
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29 | (1) |
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B Action for the Recovery of Land |
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30 | (4) |
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1 | (4) |
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2 Public and Private Nuisance |
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5 | (3) |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (18) |
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A The Type of Harm and the Character of the Locality |
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12 | (3) |
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B Utility of the Defendant's Conduct |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (4) |
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20 | (3) |
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23 | (3) |
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26 | (2) |
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4 standard of liability in private nuisance |
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28 | (6) |
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34 | (5) |
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39 | (1) |
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A Creator of the Nuisance |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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i Nuisance Created by Persons Lawfully on Premises |
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42 | (3) |
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ii Nuisance Created by a Trespasser or Resulting from an Act of Nature |
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45 | (6) |
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iii Nuisance Created by Predecessor in Title |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (4) |
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56 | (3) |
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8 Defences and Non-defences |
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59 | (4) |
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i Conduct Permitted by Statute |
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63 | (4) |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (4) |
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A Actionable Obstructions |
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74 | (2) |
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B Access To and From Highway |
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76 | (3) |
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C Damage on the Highway from Premises Adjoining the Highway |
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79 | (3) |
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D Condition of the Highway |
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16 The Rule In Rylands V Fletcher |
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1 The Rule in Rylands V Fletcher |
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1 | (35) |
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A Genesis and Nature of the Principle |
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2 | (7) |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (5) |
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21 | (1) |
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i Consent of the Claimant |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (4) |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (3) |
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vi Default of the Claimant |
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33 | (2) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (2) |
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1 Ordinary Liability in Tort |
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2 | (4) |
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2 Liability for Dangerous Animals |
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6 | (13) |
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A Animals Belonging to a Dangerous Species |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (7) |
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17 | (2) |
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3 Liability for Straying Livestock |
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19 | (7) |
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21 | (2) |
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B Detention and Sale of Straying Livestock |
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23 | (3) |
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4 Remoteness of Damage and Strict Liability under the Act |
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26 | (2) |
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5 Protection of Livestock against Dogs |
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18 Interference With Goods |
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1 | (7) |
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8 | (4) |
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12 | (29) |
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13 | (101) |
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B What Constitutes Conversion at Common Law |
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20 | (3) |
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23 | (1) |
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iv Residual Forms of Conversion |
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24 | (1) |
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C Conversion under the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977 |
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25 | (1) |
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D Conversion and Co-owners |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (6) |
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33 | (5) |
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38 | (3) |
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4 Strict Liability and Conversion |
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41 | (3) |
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5 Remedies for Interference with Goods |
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44 | (6) |
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50 | (4) |
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54 | (2) |
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D Defendant Detaining Goods |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (2) |
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19 Interference With Contract Or Business |
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1 | (5) |
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2 Inducing or Procuring a Breach of Contract |
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6 | (13) |
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8 | (3) |
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B Knowledge and Intention of the Defendant |
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11 | (2) |
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13 | (3) |
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D Defence of Justification |
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16 | (2) |
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E Inducing Breaches of Other Obligations |
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18 | (1) |
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3 Intentionally Causing Loss by Unlawful Means |
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19 | (16) |
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21 | (5) |
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26 | (2) |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (6) |
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35 | (15) |
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A Conspiracy to Injure or Crofter Conspiracy |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (5) |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (1) |
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B "Unlawful Means" Conspiracy |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (3) |
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C Place of Conspiracy in the Law |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (22) |
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A Liability of Trade Unions |
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52 | (3) |
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B Protection from Liability in Trade Disputes |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (3) |
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ii Inducing Breach of Contract and Causing Loss by Unlawful Means |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (5) |
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67 | (1) |
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E Injunctions and Restraining Actions by Individuals |
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68 | (4) |
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A Varieties of Passing Off |
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74 | (13) |
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87 | (2) |
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C The Limits of Passing Off |
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89 | (2) |
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20 Abuse Of Legal Procedure |
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1 | (17) |
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6 | (2) |
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B Favourable Termination of the Prosecution |
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8 | (3) |
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C Lack of Reasonable and Probable Cause |
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11 | (5) |
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16 | (2) |
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18 | (1) |
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3 Malicious Civil Proceedings |
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19 | (3) |
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1 The Nature and Basis of Vicarious Liability |
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1 | (6) |
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2 The Relationship between the Defendant and the Tortfeasor |
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7 | (5) |
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12 | (4) |
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16 | (3) |
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3 The Connection between the Relationship and the Conduct of the Tortfeasor |
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19 | (4) |
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B Carelessness of Servant |
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23 | (2) |
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25 | (4) |
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D Wilful Wrong of Servant |
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29 | (8) |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (3) |
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5 Employer And Independent Contractor |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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C Categories of Non-delegable Duties |
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45 | (6) |
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D Collateral or Casual Negligence of Independent Contractor |
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22 Joint And Several Tortfeasors |
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1 Multiple Tortfeasors, Causation and Proof |
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1 | (4) |
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2 Distinction between Joint and Several Tortfeasors |
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5 | (2) |
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3 Contribution between Tortfeasors |
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A Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 |
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8 | (6) |
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B Limitation and Contribution |
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14 | (1) |
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A Damages Recoverable Once Only |
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2 | (3) |
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B Damages are Awarded as a Lump Sum |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (3) |
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12 | (12) |
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24 | (6) |
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30 | (5) |
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35 | (1) |
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D Contributory Negligence |
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36 | (2) |
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i The Test for Contributory Negligence |
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38 | (15) |
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ii Apportionment of Damages |
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53 | (11) |
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64 | (1) |
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F Damages in Personal Injury Actions |
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65 | (20) |
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ii Deductions for Benefits Received |
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85 | (8) |
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iii Pre-Judgement Interest on Damages |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (10) |
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vi Structured Settlements |
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105 | (3) |
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G Damages for Destruction of or Damage to Property |
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108 | (1) |
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i Destruction of Chattels |
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109 | (3) |
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112 | (5) |
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117 | (3) |
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iv The Date of Assessment |
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120 | (1) |
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v Benefits Received as a Result of the Tort |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (5) |
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127 | (3) |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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v Damages in Lieu of Injunction |
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132 | (3) |
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B Specific Restitution of Property |
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24 Death In Relation To Tort |
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1 Death as Extinguishing Liability |
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2 | (7) |
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A Survival of Causes of Action |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (2) |
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8 | (1) |
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2 Death as Creating Liability |
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9 | (1) |
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B Fatal Accidents Act 1976 |
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10 | (5) |
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i Damages that can be Recovered |
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15 | (9) |
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24 | (7) |
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iii Contributory Negligence |
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31 | (1) |
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3 Relationship of the Two Acts |
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32 | |
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1 The State and its Subordinates |
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2 | (6) |
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8 | (6) |
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14 | (11) |
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15 | (7) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (8) |
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A Capacity to Sue in Tort |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (4) |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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8 Persons of Unsound Mind |
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36 | (3) |
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9 Persons having Parental or. Quasi-Parental Authority |
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39 | |
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1 | (6) |
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7 | (20) |
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8 | (9) |
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B Exclusion of Liability by Contract or Notice |
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17 | (1) |
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C Voluntary Assumption of Risk |
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18 | (7) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (8) |
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ii Defence of One's Property |
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35 | (2) |
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37 | (5) |
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42 | (6) |
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ii Defence of Another Person |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (8) |
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57 | (2) |
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v Lawful Confinement in Prison |
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59 | (1) |
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vi Stop and Search by Police Officer |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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A Public Policy Defences that Arise at the Time of the Tort |
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i The Defence of Illegality at Common Law |
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62 | (6) |
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ii The Defence of Illegality under s.329 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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B Public Policy Defences that Arise After the Tort |
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70 | (1) |
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ii Accord and Satisfaction |
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71 | (4) |
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75 | (1) |
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iv Prior Criminal Proceedings |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (1) |
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vii Assignment of Right of Action in Tort |
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80 | (5) |
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85 | (2) |
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87 | (17) |
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104 | (5) |
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6 Denials of Responsibility |
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109 | (724) |
Index |
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