| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 312 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Law, psychiatry, society and child abuse -- Classifying abuse as a civil wrong -- Damage, causation and quantum -- Limitation periods. |
| Summary |
Providing a detailed analysis of the legal principles in England & Wales, this book looks at governing compensation claims for the lasting trauma caused by child abuse. Its pages discuss the merits and demerits of different forms of action as mechanisms for imposing liability for abuse, how compensable psychiatric damage can be proved and how the law deals with complex issues of duty of care, causation and extending limitation periods in the context of abuse cases. Whilst a substantial portion of the book deals with civil claims by the abused for the psychological harm caused by the abuse, coverage also extends to litigation by other parties involved directly or indirectly in abuse allegations. Also included is a significant comparative element, drawing upon jurisdictions such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as a means of speculating how our own legal system might develop. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Child abuse -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
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Child abuse -- Law and legislation. |
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Great Britain. |
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Set-off and counterclaim -- England.
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Set-off and counterclaim. |
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England. |
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Set-off and counterclaim -- Wales.
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Wales. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Case, Paula. Compensating child abuse in England and Wales. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521864022 052186402X (DLC) 2007276745 (OCoLC)74523282 |
| ISBN |
0511274777 (electronic book) |
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9780511274770 (electronic book) |
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9780511275470 (electronic book) |
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0511275471 (electronic book) |
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052186402X (Cloth) |
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9780521864022 (hardback) |
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9780511494888 |
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0511494882 |
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