The Law of Misstatements

50 Years on from Hedley Byrne v Heller
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84946-863-3
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 791 g

2013 was the 50th anniversary of the House of Lords' landmark decision in Hedley Byrne v Heller. This international collection of essays brings together leading experts from five of the most important jurisdictions in which the case has been received (the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, Canada and Australia) to reappraise its implications from a number of complementary perspectives-historical, theoretical, conceptual, doctrinal and comparative. It explores modern developments in the law of misstatement in each of the jurisdictions; examines the case's profound effects on the conceptual apparatus of the law of negligence more generally; explores the intersections between misstatement liabilities in contract, tort, equity and under statutory consumer protection provisions; and critically assesses the ways in which advisor liabilities have come to be limited and distributed under systems of 'joint and several' and 'proportionate' liability respectively. Inspired by Hedley Byrne, the purpose of the collection is to reflect on the case's echoes, effects and analogues throughout the private law and to provide a platform for thinking about the ways in which liabilities for misstatement and pure economic loss should be modelled in the modern day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barker, Kit

Grantham, Ross

Swain, Warren

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Issues
1. Hedley Byrne v Heller: Issues at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Kit Barker
Part 2: History, Concepts and Theory
2. Hedley Byrne v Heller in Australia: 'Never has there been such a Judicial Jamboree '

Warren Swain
3. The Assumption of Responsibility

Andrew Robertson and Julia Wang
4. The Basis of the Hedley Byrne Action

Allan Beever
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog that did Bark in the Night-Time: What Mischief does Hedley Byrne v Heller Correct?

David Campbell
Part 3: Intersections and Distributions of Liability
6. Equity as Tort?

Paul Finn
7. Limitations on Defendant Liability for Misleading or Deceptive Conduct Under Statute: Some Insights from
Negligent Misstatement

Elise Bant and Jeannie Paterson
8. Advisor Liability: Claims for Contribution or Reimbursement Between an Advisor and the Advisee's Contract-Partner

Sirko Harder
Part 4: Comparative Perspectives
9. What are We Doing Here? The Relationship Between Negligence in General and Misstatements in English Law

Christian Witting
10. Negligent Misstatement in the United States

Jay M Feinman
11. Hedley Byrne: Misused, then Exiled by the Supreme Court of Canada

Bruce Feldthusen
12. Liability Under Hedley Byrne for 'Pre-Contract'
Negligent Misrepresentation: A New Zealand Perspective

David McLauchlan
13. Negligent Misstatement in Australia- Resolving the Uncertain Legacy of Esanda

Kit Barker

Über Autor(innen)

Swain, Warren
Warren Swain is Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland and Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.

Barker, Kit
Kit Barker is Professor of Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.

Photograph © The University of Queensland 2016

Grantham, Ross
Ross Grantham is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Photograph © The University of Queensland 2016

Kit Barker is Professor of Law and Ross Grantham is Professor of Commercial Law, both of the TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland.

Warren Swain is Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland and Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.