Dear Colleagues:
Congratulations go out to Jean-Sébastien Borghetti, Simon Whittaker and Michael Barnes on the recent publications of their respective books with Hart. Information is below.
French
Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Jean-Sébastien Borghetti and Simon Whittaker
The French law of torts or of extra-contractual liability is widely seen as exceptional. For long it was based on a mere five articles of the Civil Code
of 1804, but on this foundation the courts and legal scholars have constructed liabilities for fault and strict liability of an extraordinary breadth and significance. While the rest of the general law of obligations (including contract) in the Civil Code
was reformed in 2016 by executive ordonnance, this area was left aside, being the subject in 2017 of a proposal by the French Government for the legislative reform of the law of civil liability, a new legislative category to include both contractual and extra-contractual
liability. This work considers important aspects of this developing area of French law in a series of essays by French lawyers and comparative lawyers working in French law and other civil law systems. In doing so, it provides insight into the doctrinal thinking
and judgments of French lawyers as well as the possible directions in which this area of the law may be developed in the future.
Jean-Sébastien Borghetti is Professeur
de droit privé at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). Simon Whittaker
is Professor of European Comparative Law at the University of Oxford.
Dec 2019 | 9781509927272 | 544pp | Hbk | RSP:
£100
Discount Price: £80
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Michael Barnes QC
This work contains within a single book an account of all the forms of estoppel in operation today, including estoppel by record (res iudicata), as well as of the associated doctrine of election.
There can be few practitioners who do not at some time have to engage with estoppel. Estoppel applies across all, or nearly all, English civil law. In explaining each form of estoppel an attempt
is made to state the main elements which have to be proved to establish the estoppel and then to detail each element with its various components. At the end of each chapter a brief summary of the estoppel is included so as to guide practitioners and others
to any question important in any particular case.
The law of estoppel has considerably advanced over recent decades, and over the last 10 years alone there have been major changes, such as the clarification of the previously uncertain boundaries
of proprietary estoppel, a statement of the exceptions to the principles of res iudicata, and the extension law as well as of fact. These and other subjects are explained in full.
Michael Barnes QC
is a barrister at Wilberforce Chambers, London.
Feb 2020 | 9781509909384 | 984pp | Hbk | RSP:
£225
Discount Price: £180
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get 20% off your order!
Happy Reading,
Jason Neyers
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