Economic Loss: 2 Volumes

Economic Loss, 3rd Edition: With a foreword by Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers Deals with situations in which one person's negligent act or omission causes another person to suffer a loss which is not to his person or his property, and where the relationship between them is usually non-contractual Sets out and comments on the principles applied by the courts in pure economic loss cases Covers general themes and alternative approaches before dealing with the broad categories of situations in which questions concerning pure economic loss and duties of care in tort arise Discusses and analyses virtually all of the significant reported cases on this topic in England and the Commonwealth Examines the principles applicable to the imposition of, or the refusal to impose, duties of care where the claimants loss/injury is to his person or to his property; particularly in the field of product liability and in relation to the acts or omissions of statutory authorities Looks at the complex problem of the effect of the existence of a contract on the outcome of a pure economic loss duty of care claim in tort Presents General Principles in Volume One and Specific Applications in Volume Two Deals with very interesting cases, such as: a decomposing snail in a bottle of ginger beer, a night-watchman whose tea was laced with arsenic, lobsters that died in a tank before Christmas, a judge who said that there is no difference between a rodent and a gastropod, a typewriter factory whose keys were solidified, a Pentium III ultimate media machine which was anything but, one and a half dead flies in an unopened dispenser of purified drinking water, an advertising agency whose client failed to pay as advertised, a ship that sank after it was certified good to go, a tavern that lost business because a boat crashed into a bridge, two dead mice in two bottles of ginger beer, a gambler who was banned from buying too many lottery tickets, a trailer which became detached from a farmers Land Rover because the design of the coupler was deficient was the manufacturer of the coupler liable for the dealer/retailers pure economic loss?, a garbage dump which could not burn the waste, a hotel which had to shut its cocktail bar, some bottles of a Bacardi mix which were not a breeze, a dredging operation that was too silty, a compulsive gambler who went to the dogs, an asbestos worker whose pleural plaques were not actionable, an auctioneer who was out-bid by foot and mouth disease, a potato farmer who was devastated by bacterial wilt, a railway company whose parapet walls were demolished, a lorry that collided with a fire hydrant, a building-owner who was out-negotiated by the Government, a set of accounts which had been certified as balanced but werent, a truck-driver who overshot a driveway, a soldier who shot his girlfriends lover, a house inspector who said no responsibility and the Lords who said yes responsibility, a home decorator who left the front unlocked when he stepped out to buy some wallpaper did he cause the homeowners loss in the ensuing burglary?, a soldier who choked on his own vomit, some Borstal Boys who trashed some yachts, lots of houses with shaky foundations, a couple who lost $30m to a fraudster and almost got their bank to pay for it, an abattoir whose dividing wall was not high enough, an asset-freezing Order that didnt, a factory-owner whose diesel storage tanks tap did not have a lock, a video shop manager who was beaten up in the car park, a remand prisoner who died after a policeman left the wicket hatch open, four Kuwaiti commercial aircraft which were destroyed by Coalition aerial bombing in Iraq, a very honest patient with cauda equina syndrome, an asbestos worker who worked for several employers but could not say which of them caused his mesothelioma, a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patient whose negligent doctor got off Scot-free, a wedding guest who died after eating ras malai that contained eggs and a swimmer who drowned in a pond that was contaminated with Weils disease. See more