State Liability in Tort A Comparative Law Study [Hardcover]

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.

1. General Introduction
2. Overview of State Liability in English and French Law
3. Public Law Unlawfulness and Liability in Damages
4. Beyond Illegality: Liability for Fault in English and French Law
5. Lawfully Caused Loss
6. Assessing the Causal Link
7. Damage and Compensation
8. Alternative Means of Redress
9. General Conclusion