Contributory Negligence

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The Rt Hon Lord Reed (from the Foreword) This concise book will assist courts and practitioners in understanding this area of the law, and in applying a consistent approach when assessing, in the most common types of case, the extent to which damages should be reduced for contributory negligence. It is greatly to be welcomed.

James Goudkamp is a Fellow of Keble College and is an Associate Professor in the Oxford Law Faculty. James specialises in private law subjects. He has published numerous books, as an author or editor, and many articles, chapters and case notes. A sizeable amount of his writing is concerned with the law of contributory negligence. Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law at the University of Oxford, and the Francis Reynolds and Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford. Donal has published extensively on a range of private law topics, and has a particular interest in the law of negligence and the law of private nuisance.

PART I 1: Introduction PART II 2: The Contributory Negligence Doctrine 3: Apportionment of Responsibility 4: Related Rules 5: Procedure 6: Appeals PART III 7: Frequently Recurring Situations: Introduction 8: Intoxicated Pedestrian Injured by Motorist 9: Non-intoxicated Pedestrian Injured by Motorist: Adult Pedestrian 10: Non-intoxicated Pedestrian Injured by Motorist: Child Pedestrian 11: Failure to Wear a Seat Belt 12: Speeding 13: Slip-and-Fall Accident: Workplace 14: Slip-and-Fall Accident: Public Place 15: Slip-and-Fall Accident: Occupiers' Liability 16: Carelessness in Connection with Work Equipment 17: Carelessness in or while Working at Height 18: Children Injured while Playing 19: Other Recurrent Situations