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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968086103321

Autore

Case Paula

Titolo

Compensating child abuse in England and Wales / / Paula Case

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-107-16922-4

1-280-81566-3

0-511-27477-7

0-511-49488-2

0-511-27547-1

0-511-27322-3

0-511-32100-7

0-511-27401-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

344.4203276

Soggetti

Child abuse - Law and legislation - England

Reparation (Criminal justice) - England

Set-off and counterclaim - England

Child abuse - Law and legislation - Wales

Reparation (Criminal justice) - Wales

Set-off and counterclaim - Wales

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Law, psychiatry, society and child abuse -- Classifying abuse as a civil wrong -- Damage, causation and quantum -- Limitation periods.

Sommario/riassunto

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.