TORT LAW—What Happened to Duty in Wyoming? Negligent Supervision of Minors, Loss of a Sibling’s Consortium, Duty to Inspect One’s Premises, and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress; Hendricks v. Hurley, 184 P.3d 680 (Wyo. 2008)

The Future of Emotional Harm

Why should tort law treat claims for emotional harm as a second-class citizen? Judicial skepticism about these claims is long entrenched, justified by an amalgam of perceived problems ranging from proof difficulties for causation and the need to constrain fraudulent claims, to the ubiquity of the injury, and a concern about open-ended liability. To address this jumble of justifications, the law...

Civil Liability for Negligent Police Investigation: Canadian Developments

In October of 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its ruling in Hill v. Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Services Board, a case in which the Court addressed the legitimacy of a tort for negligent police investigation. The holding by a majority of six Justices recognized the tort of negligent police investigation at Canadian law. As such, Canada is now one of the only common law countries...

حقوق بیماران و مسؤولیت مدنی پزشکی

These days, because of cultural development and mental growth and also improvement in human culture more attention is given to the patient’s rights, so that governments in different societies attempt to support this damageable group more than before. Always in the realm of the Law science, also, some questions were posed regarding this subject and jurisprudents, according to their capa...

Negligent infliction of emotional distress: a view of the proposed Restatement provisions from England

مفهوم خطا و نقش آن در ساختار طبقه بندی مسئولیت مدنی

Concept of delict(Tort) in Roman Law on the base of Deontology as a ethical theory is recognized in the concept of  breach of first Duty and structure of category in this legal system is formed on the base of Obligation and Responsibility as a secondary of breach of first Obligation.in contrast in Common Law and Jurisprudence, concept of Tort in accordance to ethical theory of teleology is...