State Liability in Tort: A Comparative Law Study
ISBN: 9780191698507
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Law;

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.

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