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Author
Title
An analysis of the economic torts / Hazel Carty.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Call Number
KD1949 .C37 2010
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9780199546749 (hardback : acid-free paper)
0199546746 (hardback : acid-free paper)
0199546746 (hardback : acid-free paper)
Description
xxvii, 333 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)646393885
Summary
Economic torts are an area under-theorised and sparsely explored. Hazel Carty cuts through the resulting chaos to provide practical legal research to analyse the ingredients, uncertainties, and possibilities of the economic torts, and to suggest a coherent framework for their future development.
Note
Economic torts are an area under-theorised and sparsely explored. Hazel Carty cuts through the resulting chaos to provide practical legal research to analyse the ingredients, uncertainties, and possibilities of the economic torts, and to suggest a coherent framework for their future development.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Tables of Cases
xi
Tables of Legislation
xxvi
1.
Introduction
1
A.
The Economic Torts
1
B.
The Hierarchy of Interests at Common Law
4
C.
History of the Torts
5
D.
Conclusion
15
2.
Preliminary Discussion of the General Economic Torts
17
A.
The House of Lords' Decisions in OBG and Total Network
17
B.
Conclusion
28
3.
Inducing Breach of Contract
30
A.
History and Complexity of the Tort
30
B.
Ingredients
35
C.
The Inconsistent Transaction Fallacy
45
D.
Intentional Inducement of Other Wrongs
50
E.
Rationale
54
F.
Defence of Justification
63
G.
Conclusion
70
4.
The Unlawful Means Tort
73
A.
History and Importance
73
B.
Ingredients
78
C.
Rationale
101
D.
Conclusion
105
5.
Intimidation
107
A.
Introduction
107
B.
History and Modern Form
107
C.
Ingredients
110
D.
The Modern Controversies Surrounding the Tort of Intimidation
114
E.
Intimidation and Contract
117
F.
Conclusion
120
6.
Conspiracy
122
I.
Introduction
122
II.
Unlawful Means Conspiracy
124
A.
History
124
B.
Ingredients
125
C.
Conclusion
137
III.
Lawful Means Conspiracy
138
A.
History
139
B.
Ingredients
140
C.
The Traditional Limited Scope of the Tort
144
D.
Historical Rationale
145
E.
Conclusion
149
IV.
Overall Conclusion: Conspiracy as an Unsettling Factor in the Economic Torts
149
A.
Issue 1
150
B.
Issue 2
152
7.
Two-party or Direct Economic Tort Liability
155
A.
The Debate Begins
155
B.
Terminology Explored
156
C.
The Direct or Two-party Frame Acknowledged
157
D.
Direct or Two-party Economic Tort Liability: The Controversies
158
E.
Conclusion
162
8.
The General Economic Torts: Conclusion
163
A.
Uncertainties and the Search for a Twenty-first Century Agenda
163
B.
Critical Review of OBG and Total Network
163
C.
Possible Agendas for the General Economic Torts
168
D.
Suggested Policy for the General Economic Torts
179
9.
Deceit
182
A.
History
182
B.
Importance of the Tort and Possibility of Three-party Liability
184
C.
Ingredients of Classic Deceit
188
D.
Deceit and Vicarious Liability
196
E.
Rationale
197
F.
Conclusion
199
10.
Malicious Falsehood
200
A.
History, Scope, and Nomenclature
200
B.
Ingredients
203
C.
Relationship to Defamation, Passing Off, and the Unlawful Means Tort
219
D.
Conclusion
222
11.
Passing Off
225
I.
History and Importance of the Tort
225
II.
Ingredients: the Classic Trinity
229
A.
Misrepresentation
231
B.
Goodwill and Deserving Claimants
249
C.
Damage to Goodwill: Completing the Trinity
257
III.
The Rationale of Passing Off and the Classic Trinity
266
IV.
The Search for Greater Protection: Passing Off as Unfair Competition or Misappropriation
271
A.
Product Misdescriptions as Unfair Competition or Misappropriation
272
B.
Connection Misrepresentations as Unfair Competition or Misappropriation
275
C.
Product Simulation as Unfair Competition or Misappropriation
280
V.
Conclusion: The Future of Passing Off
281
12.
The Misrepresentation Economic Torts: Conclusion
283
A.
Their Potential Explored
283
B.
The Tort of Deceit and ̀Fraud'
283
C.
The Torts of Malicious Falsehood and Passing Off: Orthodoxy versus Expansion
284
D.
Suggested Policy for the Tort of Malicious Falsehood
293
E.
Suggested Policy for the Tort of Passing Off
296
13.
Overall Conclusion and Framework
301
I.
The Policy for the Twenty-first Century Suggested
301
A.
The General Economic Torts
301
B.
The Misrepresentation Economic Torts
307
C.
The Need to Tackle All the Economic Torts
310
D.
Overlapping Doctrines Identified and Distinguished
315
II.
A Suggested Optimum Framework and (Unfortunate) Post-Total Network Adjustments
318
A.
The Suggested Optimum Framework
318
B.
Possible Adjusted Frameworks Post-Total Network
326
III.
Conclusion
328
Index
329