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UNINA9910968086103321 |
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Autore |
Case Paula |
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Titolo |
Compensating child abuse in England and Wales / / Paula Case |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
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ISBN |
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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 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Law, psychiatry, society and child abuse -- Classifying abuse as a civil wrong -- Damage, causation and quantum -- Limitation periods. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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