There is widely perceived to be a public liability crisis in Australia. This paper analyses whether court awards for injuries are excessive. The paper has two main parts. The first part outlines a normative basis for the sizes of awards based on the principles of welfare economics and the amounts that individuals would be willing to pay to avoid injuries. It shows the kinds of compensation sums...

We begin the study of sets of near 1-factors of graphs G of odd order whose union contains all the edges of G and determine, for a few classes of graphs, the minimum number of near 1-factors in such sets. MSC 2000: Primary 05C70; Secondary 05C15.