Imputed Contributory Negligence in Automobile Bailments

Empirical Comparisons of the Contributory versus Comparative Negligence Rules

The liability rule traditionally used in accident law when both the injurer’s and the victim’s behaviour affect the likelihood of an accident occurring is the rule of contributory negligence. Under it, the injurer is liable for the full amount of the victim’s damage only if the injurer’s behavior is negligent and the victim’s behavior is non-negligent. If both parties are negligent, only the vi...

EUROPEAN REAL ESTATE SOCIETY BERLIN - JUNE 25TH TO 27TH 1997 Contributory Negligence Involving Overseas European Banks in Property Valuation Negligence Cases In The UK

This paper examines the phenomenon of cross-border property lending and examines a number of issues regarding lending procedures and decision making processes in the context of the relationship between lender and professional advisor. It commences by placing these procedures and processes in the context of the development of cross border European property investment and finance. The UK has been...

What Negligence Theory Needs to Learn from Automobile Insurance: “Fault is Predictively Irrelevant” (and Why)

It was established beyond the shadow of a doubt [in the early 1960s] that the individual who is involved in automobile accidents, regardless of whether he appears to cause them or not, is much more likely to have accidents in the future than is the person who is accident free. These studies embraced probably well over 1 million cases in the aggregate. Note that I have just referred to accidents...

Professional Negligence

Contributory torture.

Sir, Contributory torture occurs when the behavior of the offender influences the behavior of the interrogator or, in a broader sense, anyone disciplining the offender. The word contributory is used because if the offender acts up, he/she is part of the reason for the type of punishment he/she receives. For example, if two people are arrested and one follows the directions of the officer and th...