Tag: Liabilities

  • Damage

    Product Damage in the Convention on Law Applicable to Products Liability Article 1 This is the basic article concerned with the scope, or field of application, of the Convention. It provides that, subject to one exception, the Convention shall determine 'the law applicable to the liability […]

  • Damage

    Product Damage in the Convention on Law Applicable to Products Liability Article 1 This is the basic article concerned with the scope, or field of application, of the Convention. It provides that, subject to one exception, the Convention shall determine 'the law applicable to the liability […]

  • Public Policy

    Political Science: Fields in Political Science: Public Policy Introduction to Public Policy The field of public policy involves the study of specific policy problems and governmental responses to them. Political scientists involved in the study of public policy attempt to devise solutions […]

  • Territorial Jurisdiction

    Territorial Units treatment in the Convention on Law Applicable to Products Liability Articles 12-14 (of the Convention on Law Applicable to Products Liability) are directed to the peculiar problems of States which are composed of territorial units, each with its own rules of law on the […]

  • Products Liability

    Kinds of Torts: Other Torts Products Liability Introduction to Products Liability Under the tort of products liability, when a product causes injury due to a fault in design or manufacture, or a failure to warn or instruct about a danger, the manufacturer (or any other commercial party […]

  • Products Liability

    Kinds of Torts: Other Torts Products Liability Introduction to Products Liability Under the tort of products liability, when a product causes injury due to a fault in design or manufacture, or a failure to warn or instruct about a danger, the manufacturer (or any other commercial party […]

  • Law Applicable to Products Liability

    Law Applicable to Products Liability In the Convention on Law Applicable to Products Liability Article 4 This is the first of the key articles in the Convention that are concerned with the choice of the applicable law. Under this article, the applicable law is the internal law of the State of the place of injury,…

  • Law Applicable to Products Liability

    Law Applicable to Products Liability In the Convention on Law Applicable to Products Liability Article 4 This is the first of the key articles in the Convention that are concerned with the choice of the applicable law. Under this article, the applicable law is the internal law of the State of the place of injury,…

  • Convention on the Law Applicable to Products Liability

    Convention on the Law Applicable to Products Liability The Final Act of the Convention was signed on the 21st of October 1972 (Actes et Documents, Douzième session (1972) Tome I). Analyisis of the Convention on Law Applicable to Products Liability History of the Convention The law governing products liability was first suggested as a possible…

  • Tort Liability

    Tort Liability Dimensions of Tort Liability There is a clear moral basis for recovery through the legal system where the defendant has been careless (negligent) or has intentionally caused harm. Using the concepts that we are free and autonomous beings with basic rights, we can see that when others interfere with either our freedom or…

  • Rules of Conduct

    Market Conduct and International Trade Economy In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Market Conduct: In a particular industry or market, refers to practices which, individually or in combination, shape the market performance […]

  • Malfeasance concepts

    Malfeasance concepts See Malfeasance concepts – Malfeasance concepts – Malpractice – What is Malpractice? – Malpractice concepts Failure to do or perform something competently (Malfeasance) A lawyer may be liable for malpractice if he or she performs the actions required by law, but does so in an incompetent or substandard manner. For example, a lawyer…

  • Mary Carter Agreement

    The Florida Supreme Court defined a Mary Carter agreement as ‘a contract by which one co-defendant secretly agrees with the plaintiff that, if such defendant will proceed to defend himself in court, his own maximum liability will be diminished proportionately by increasing the liability of the other co-defendants.’ Id. at 387. When the Florida Supreme…