{"product_id":"damages-and-compensation-culture-comparative-perspectives-9781509927937","title":"Damages and Compensation Culture: Comparative Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe focus of the essays in this book is on the relationship between compensation culture, social values and tort damages for personal injuries. A central concern of the public and political perception of personal injuries claims is the high cost of tort claims to society, reflected in insurance premiums, often accompanied by an assumption that tort law and practice is flawed and improperly raising such costs. The aims of this collection are to first clarify the relationship between tort damages for personal injuries and the social values that the law seeks to reflect and to balance, then to critically assess tort reforms, including both proposals for reform and actual implemented reforms, in light of how they advance or hinder those values. Reforms of substantive and procedural law in respect of personal injury damages are analysed, with perspectives from England and Wales, Canada, Australia, Ireland and continental Europe. The essays offer valuable insights to anyone interested in the reform of tort law or the tort process in respect of personal injuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDamages and Compensation Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly informative book, and one that tackles a topic that has so far attracted little academic attention... a valuable contribution to the ongoing public debate about compensation culture and the recoverability of damages for personal injuries. -- James Plunkett * Journal of Professional Negligence *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: General Features of the Relationship between\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eDamages and Compensation Culture\u003c\/b\u003e 1. ‘The Whiplash Capital of the World’: Genealogy of a Compensation Myth  \u003ci\u003eKen Oliphant\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Structural Factors Affecting the Number and Cost of Personal Injury Claims in the Tort System  \u003ci\u003eRichard Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e 3. A Reflexive Approach to Accident Law Reform  \u003ci\u003eErik S Knutsen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Damages Reform in Various Jurisdictions\u003c\/b\u003e 4. Reforming English Tort Law: Lessons from Australia  \u003ci\u003eJames Goudkamp\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Non-Pecuniary Damages for Personal Injury: A Reflection on the Canadian Experience \u003ci\u003eJeff Berryman\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Identifying and Calculating Personal Injury Damages in Ireland, Italy, France and Belgium: Recent Debates between Scholars, Judges and Practitioners  \u003ci\u003eDenise Amram\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: The Process for Delivery of Damages\u003c\/b\u003e 7. Deconstructing Policy on Costs and the Compensation Culture  \u003ci\u003eAnnette Morris\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Personal Injuries Assessment Board: A Decade of Delivery?  \u003ci\u003eDorothea Dowling\u003c\/i\u003e 9. An Overview of the Role of Medical Panels in Victorian Legislation  \u003ci\u003eDr Carol A Newlands\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Compensation and Personal Responsibility\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Concurrent Fault at 90: A History of Ontario’s Negligence Act and Canada’s Uniform Contributory Fault Act \u003ci\u003eJohn C Kleefeld\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Individualism and Autonomy in Occupiers’ Liability and Compensation Culture  \u003ci\u003eDesmond Ryan\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Compensation Culture and Sport  \u003ci\u003eTim O’Connor\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084993425751,"sku":"9781509927937","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/damages-and-compensation-culture-comparative-perspectives-9781509927937","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}