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Central Issues in the Law of Tort Defences

Abstract:: This chapter is an introduction to an edited collection on ?Defences in Tort?, which is the first in a series of collections investigating defences in private law. This chapter is in three principal sections, though the sections are neither exhaustive nor hermetically sealed. We first examine what a defence actually is. We begin this section by considering a conundrum that pervades this field, namely whether it is possible to separate the definition of a defence from the consequences of somet...
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Dyson, A., Wilmot-Smith, F., & Goudkamp, J. (2015). Central Issues in the Law of Tort Defences. Defences in Tort.

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Dyson, A., et al. “Central Issues in the Law of Tort Defences.” Defences in Tort, Hart Publishing, 2015.

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Dyson, A, F Wilmot-Smith, and J Goudkamp. 2015. “Central Issues in the Law of Tort Defences.” Defences in Tort, Hart Studies in Private Law: Essays on Defences, .
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University of Oxford

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Law

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Law Faculty

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Publisher:: Hart Publishing Publisher's website
Series:: Hart Studies in Private Law: Essays on Defences
Journal:: Defences in Tort
Publication date:: 2015-02-26
ISBN:: 9781849464710

Item Description

Keywords:: rights theory

justification

civil recourse

necessity

duress

limitation

corrective justice

tort law

excuse

defences
Pubs id:: pubs:584259
UUID:: uuid:0882e555-be71-4baf-8259-a560d70da2d2
Local pid:: info:fedora/pubs:584259
Source identifiers:: 584259
Deposit date:: 2016-09-06

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Copyright holder:: Bloomsbury Publishing2
Copyright date:: 2015
Notes:: © Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2013.

Licence:: Terms and Conditions of Use for Oxford University Research Archive

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