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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792019003321

Autore

Keren-Paz Tsachi

Titolo

Sex trafficking : a private law response / / Tsachi Keren-Paz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-05121-6

1-135-05122-4

0-203-50430-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

346.033

Soggetti

Torts

Human trafficking

Prostitution

Human trafficking (International law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Definitional issues; 1.2 Locating private law in the regulatory framework; 1.3 Diversity of experiences, gaps in knowledge and the prostitution debate; 1.4 The book's organisation; 2. Potential responses, and the experience thus far; 2.1 The menu: potential defendants and claims; 2.1.1 Inadequate private law responses: contract and labour law; 2.1.2 Traffickers; 2.1.3 The state; 2.1.4 Clients; 2.1.5 Publishers of sex advertisements; 2.2 The litigation thus far

2.3 Brief evaluation of tort claims against traffickers2.3.1 Proof of general and special damages; 2.3.2 False imprisonment; 2.3.3 Punitive damages; 2.3.4 Joint and several liability?; 3. Restitution from traffickers; 3.1 Vindication of property; 3.1.1 Money paid by clients directly to the victim and taken by the trafficker; 3.1.1.1 Title passing from client to victim; 3.1.1.2 Title remains with the victim; 3.1.1.3 No victim's illegality defence; 3.1.2 Money paid directly from the client to the trafficker; 3.1.2.1 Substitute for services; 3.1.2.2 Unauthorised use of the claimant's body

3.1.3 Proceeds from selling the victim from one trafficker to another3.2



Unjust enrichment; 3.3 Restitution for wrongs; 3.3.1 Trafficking, interference with property and acquisitive wrongs; 3.3.2 Cynical violation of an important interest; 3.3.3 The measure of recovery; 3.3.3.1 Objective and subjective value; 3.3.3.2 Rejecting the licence fee/quantum meruit measures; 3.3.3.3 Attributed gain: value of non-forced sexual services; 3.3.3.4 Attributed gain: number of clients; 3.3.3.5 No allowance and deductions; 3.3.3.6 Courts' practice; 3.4 Accumulation of restitution and compensation

3.5 Conclusion4. Restitution from the state; 4.1 Claimant's legal title and wrongdoer's unconscionability; 4.2 Traffickers as fiduciaries; 4.3 No bona fide purchaser for value defence for the state; 4.3.1 The trafficker's obligation to the state; 4.3.2 Wrongful calculation and wrongful satisfaction; 4.3.3 No value provided by the state; 4.3.4 Notice of the victim's right to the money; 4.4 Costs of collection should not be reimbursed; 4.4.1 Enrichment; 4.4.2 Self-interest conferral of benefits; 4.5 Income from forced labour should not be taxed; 4.6 Conclusion

5. Clients' liability for direct contact: battery and conversion5.1 Policy; 5.1.1 Fairness; 5.1.2 Equality; 5.1.3 The protected interest and trespass torts; 5.1.4 Instrumental considerations; 5.2 Battery and apparent consent; 5.2.1 Void transactions under extreme duress; 5.2.2 Clients' constructive notice; 5.2.3 Unconscionability; 5.2.4 Reliance in torts, restitution and contracts; 5.2.5 Conclusion and caveat; 5.3 Conversion; 5.3.1 Conceptualising victims as subjects and property; 5.3.2 Doctrinal translation; 5.3.3 Doctrinal and conceptual objections; 5.3.4 Symbolic message and poetic justice

5.4 Conclusion

Sommario/riassunto

Sex Trafficking: A Private Law Response examines existing and potential causes of action against sex traffickers, clients and the state and argues for fair and effective private law remedies. Combining a theoretical inquiry about the borders of liability in torts and restitution with a political commitment to protecting the interests of victims of sex trafficking, this book offers a comparative doctrinal and socio-legal analysis of private law remedies, their justification, and their effectiveness. Tsachi Keren-Paz innovatively and convincingly makes the argument that all those dir