State Liability in Tort: A Comparative Law Study

by Duncan Fairgrieve

This book examines financial compensation for wrongs committed by public bodies including medical negligence, educational errors, child abuse by local authority carers, and police misconduct. Recent English cases are analysed and compared with European decisions. Explanation is given of ways of gaining compensation outside the courts, through complaints-procedures, ombudsmen, and statutory schemes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199258058
• ISBN13: 9780199258055
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.5"