Does Tort Law Reform Help or Hurt Consumers?

This chapter examines the principles of awards and damages for personal injuries and associated losses in tort law. It explains that damages are available to both surviving tort victims and to deceased estates. The personal injury damages available to living claimants include those for pecuniary losses and non-pecuniary losses, while for instances where the tort victim has died there are survival actions provided by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934 and another that treats the victim’s very death as the basis of the claim which is provided for by the Fatal Accidents Act 1976. This chapter also considers various alternative sources of compensation.

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Does Tort Law Reform Help or Hurt Consumers?*

Economic Record ◽

10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00640.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 86 (275) ◽

pp. 563-577 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

STEPHEN P. KING

Keyword(s):

Tort Law ◽

Law Reform

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Civil forensic psychiatry – Part 2: specific issues

Australasian Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/1039856218759236 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 252-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anthony H Samuels

Keyword(s):

Continuing Education ◽

Psychiatric Disorders ◽

Forensic Psychiatry ◽

Tort Law ◽

Law Reform ◽

The Many

Objectives: This paper describes the main areas of civil forensic psychiatry (FP) and the skills required by psychiatric experts. Some specific areas of civil FP are discussed, including tort law reform, reliability of psychiatric evidence, contentious psychiatric disorders, and the many domains of civil FP. Conclusions: Civil FP is an important sub-specialty component of forensic psychiatry that requires greater emphasis in the training and continuing education of psychiatrists. A process of accrediting psychiatrists as having competency in advanced civil FP may be of value.

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