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The system of tort law in Australia is broadly similar to that in other common law countries. However, some divergences in approach have occurred as its...

differences in tort law. Common law systems include United States tort law, Australian tort law, Canadian tort law, Indian tort law, and the tort law of a variety...

Tort law in India is primarily governed by judicial precedent as in other common law jurisdictions, supplemented by statutes governing damages, civil procedure...

Tort reform consists of changes in the civil justice system in common law countries that aim to reduce the ability of plaintiffs to bring tort litigation...

outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to tort law in common law jurisdictions: Tort law – defines what a legal injury is and, therefore, whether...

This article addresses torts in United States law. As such, it covers primarily common law. Moreover, it provides general rules, as individual states...

Canadian tort law is composed of two parallel systems: a common law framework outside Québec and a civil law framework within Québec. Outside Québec,...

In conflict of laws, the choice of law rules for tort are intended to select the lex causae by which to determine the nature and scope of the judicial...

The tort of seduction was a civil wrong or tort in common law legal systems, and still exists in some jurisdictions. Originally, it allowed an unmarried...

In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate...

European tort law, as a term, is not strictly defined and is used to describe a number of various features concerning tort law in Europe. The concept...

tort under privacy law that protects individuals from the unauthorized dissemination of private information that is not of public concern. This tort aims...

expected to be exercised in similar circumstances. Within the scope of tort law, negligence pertains to harm caused by the violation of a duty of care...

resulting in a tort nor as a contractual duty resulting in a breach of contract, but rather some other kind of duty recognizable by the law. It has been...

The first Tort Law in China wasn't enacted until 2009, though ideas similar concepts about social obligations and duties can be found in Confucianism upon...

damages) if one can prove that the tort was intentional. Similarly, in most Australian jurisdictions, intentional torts are not included in civil liability...

Economic torts, which are also called business torts, are torts that provide the common law rules on liability which arise out of business transactions...

of Australia case decided in 1991 on Australian tort law. The case considered the conditions required for causation to be established in tort law, the...

In common law, battery is a tort falling under the umbrella term 'trespass to the person'. Entailing unlawful contact which is directed and intentional...

Indigenous Australian customary law during colonisation. Australia is a common-law jurisdiction, its court system having originated in the common law system...