Restitutionary Rights to Share in Damages
Carers' Claims
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:12th Jun '03
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£40.99(9780521036962)
Degeling deals with particular configurations lying at the boundary between tort and unjust enrichment.
Rights and obligations can arise, amongst other things, in tort or in unjust enrichment. Simone Degeling deals with the phenomenon whereby a stranger to litigation is entitled to participate in the fruits of that litigation. Two prominent examples of this phenomenon are the carer, entitled to share in the fund of damages recovered by a victim of tort, and the indemnity insurer, entitled to participate in the fruits of the insured's claim against the wrongdoer. Degeling demonstrates that both are rights raised to reverse unjust enrichment. Careful examination of these two categories reveals the existence of a novel policy-motivated unjust factor called the policy against accumulation. Degeling argues that this is an unjust factor of broad application, applying to configurations other than that of the carer and the indemnity insurer. This will interest restitution and tort lawyers, both academic and practitioner, as well as academic institutions and court libraries.
“It is written with great lucidity, a clear appreciation of some of its own controversies, and to high standards of scholarship … it provides an important contribution to the debate about how carer rights should be configured in the context of tort litigation.' Law Quarterly Review
'… careful analysis and thoughtful proposals …' Ken Oliphant, Cardiff University
ISBN: 9780521800655
Dimensions: 237mm x 158mm x 26mm
Weight: 632g
314 pages