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Product Liability explains the circumstances in which manufacturers, retailers and others may be held liable to compensate persons who are injured, or who incur financial loss, when the products which they manufacture or sell are defective or not fit for their purposes. This major new text provides comprehensive coverage of the law as it has developed in the United Kingdom and in addition contains detailed discussions of case law from other jurisdictions, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France and Germany. A chapter with detailed coverage of the conflict of laws has been contributed by Professor Jonathan Harris, University of Birmingham.Readership: Primary: Practitioners in private practice and in industry; judges, regulatory authorities; and reference libraries in the UK and worldwide. Secondary: Academics

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Author:   Professor C J Miller (Emeritus Professor of English Law, University of Birmingham and Barrister (Lincoln's Inn), Henderson Chambers) ,  Dr R S Goldberg (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham and Solicitor)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 6.30cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   1.561kg
ISBN:  

9780198256786

ISBN 10:   0198256787
Pages:   1176
Publication Date:   15 July 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1: Introduction and Modern Historical Outline PART I - LIABILITY IN CONTRACT AND FOR MISREPRESENTATIONS 2: Privity of Contract 3: Express Warranties and Misrepresentations 4: Implied terms as to Correspondence with Description, Satisfactory Quality and Fitness for Purpose 5: Remedies for Breach of the Implied Terms 6: Exemption Clauses and Unfair Contract Terms PART II - STRICT LIABILITY IN TORT 7: Introduction to Strict Product Liability 8: Persons Subject to Strict Liability 9: Products Within the Strict Liability Regime 10: The Requirements of a Defect: Introductory Issues 11: Manufacturing or Production Defects and Design Defects 12: Defects in Warnings or Directions for Use 13: Statutory Defences to Liability PART III - LIABILITY IN TORT FOR NEGLIGENCE 14: The Producer's Liability in Negligence 15: The Liability in Negligence of Persons Other than Producers PART IV - LIABILITY IN TORT: ISSUES COMMON TO STRICT LIABILITY AND LIABILITY IN NEGLIGENCE 16: The Types of Damage or Loss Compensated 17: Causation, Remoteness of Damage and Defences PART V - CONFLICT OF LAWS 18: Product Liability and the Conflict of Laws - Professor Jonathan Harris, Birmingham University PART VI - PRODUCT SAFETY AND THE CRIMINAL LAW 19: Provisions Covering General Product Safety APPENDIX 1 - EXTRACTS FROM CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT 1987 APPENDIX 2 - COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 85/374/EEC ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS, REGULATIONS, AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS OF THE MEMBER STATES CONCERNING LIABILITY FOR DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS APPENDIX 3 - COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2001/95/EC ON GENERAL PRODUCT SAFETY

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Professor Miller is Emeritus Professor of English Law at the University of Birmingham and has been an adviser to the National Consumer Council, the Consumers Association, and the OECD. He is an editor of and contributor to Benjamin's Sale of Goods, and a regular contributor to the All England Law Reports Annual Review. He is also author of the Product Liability and Safety Encyclopaedia . Dr Richard Goldberg is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham, having previously taught at the LSE, Kings' College London, and Queen Mary and Westfield College London. He has worked as a seconded legal assistant with McKenna & Co on the benzodiazepine lititgation and other medicinal product liability cases. He is the author of Causation and the Risk in the Law of Torts which was nominated for the SPTL Book Prize in 1999.

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