Tortious Liability of Statutory Bodies

Sir Basil Markesinis,QC, LL.D. (Cantab.) DCL (Oxon) D. Iur h.c. (Ghent, Paris I (Sorbonne) and Munich), is Professor of Common and Civil Law at University College London and Jamail Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. Jean-Bernard Auby is Ordinarius Professor at the University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), Faculte de droit et des Sciences Economiques. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen is Ordinarius Professor of Comparative Law at the Ludwig-Maxmillians University of Munich and Director of the University's Institute of International and Foreign Law. Simon Deakin is Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance and Fellow of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge.

Le sujet, d'une grande importance pratique presente egalement un vif interet theofique; il a meme conduit les auteurs a s'interroger sur la compatibilite - ou plutot l'incompatibilite - de ces decisions anglaises avec le Human Rights Act. Benedicte Fauvarque-Cosson Revue Internationale de droit Compare July 2001 Our judges would do well to read this illuminating study, and take to heart the words of Lord Bingham, the only English judge who would have allowed the Newham case to go ahead. It would require very potent considerations of public policy to override the rule of public policy which has first claim on the loyalty of law: that wrongs should be remedied. Clare Dyer The Guardian September 2002

• The basic principle of tort law; a first look at the five cases and problems they raise; how different courts have handled these cases; a critique of the English reasons; comparative conclusion; appendices.