Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. General and special tort law : uses (and abuses) of theory
Chapter 2. Breach of statute and tort law
Chapter 3. "Sois sage" : responsibility for childishness in the law of civil wrongs
Chapter 4. Claims of involuntary parenthood : why the resistance?
Chapter 5. Liability for psychiatric damage : searching for a path between pragmatism and principle
Chapter 6. Should White v Jones represent Canadian law : a return to first principles
Chapter 7. Breaches of contracts and claims by third parties
Chapter 8. Policy issues in defective property cases
Chapter 9. Defective structures and economic loss in the United States : law and policy
Chapter 10. Harm screening under negligence law
Chapter 11. Acts and omissions as positive and negative causes
Chapter 12. Decision causation : Pandora's tool-box
Chapter 13. Non-delegable duties and vicarious liability
Chapter 14. Juridical foundations of common law non-delegable duties
Chapter 15. Perish vicarious liability?
Chapter 16. Comparative perspectives on vicarious liability : defining the scope of employment
Chapter 17. What is a loss?
Chapter 18. The changing face of the gist of negligence
Chapter 19. Tort law in practice : appearance and reality in reforming periodical payments of damages
Chapter 20. The structure of the intentional torts
Chapter 21. The role of intention in the tort in Wilkinson v Downton
Chapter 22. Where principle meets pragmatism : tort law in post-colonial Hong Kong
Index