Aquilian Liability in the South African Law of Delict

Product Details:
Author(s):
Fagan, A
Year Published:
2020
Edition
1st Edition
Type:
Print | Soft Cover
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About this publication
The aim of this book is to explain Aquilian liability in the South African law of delict to students encountering it for the first time. Aquilian liability is complicated. The rules determining it are to be found in the judgments of our courts, but exactly what rule a judgment created often is a difficult and controversial question. Even when the rule is easily established, it frequently is hard to figure out precisely what it means or how to apply it to a concrete set of facts.
Rather than shy away from these complexities, this book offers students a step-by-step guide through them. The book never presents students with a bald statement about what a rule is, what it means, or how to apply it. Instead, it backs up all its claims about the rules with detailed analysis of the cases. To help students come to grips with the meaning and application of the rules, the book works its way through a large number of examples, often using diagrams to facilitate better comprehension. When conflicting views about a rule exist or are possible, the book explains what they are and why one view is to be preferred.
Students who use this book will not only acquire an in-depth understanding of the rules of Aquilian liability. They will also acquire the ability to find out for themselves, and to engage in disagreement with others about, what those rules are, what they mean, and how they are to be applied.
Even though aimed primarily at students, this book will be of interest also to academics and practitioners. Not only does it provide a clear and accessible exposition of the leading cases on Aquilian liability and the rules which those cases have established, it also overturns a number of long-cherished but mistaken orthodoxies about Aquilian liability.
Anton Fagan has taught and written about the South African law of delict for more than twenty years. A collection of his essays on the subject, Undoing Delict: The South African Law of Delict under the Constitution, was published in 2018.
Content
INTRODUCTION TO FAULT
CHAPTER 1: NEGLIGENCE
I Introduction
II The test in kruger v coetzee
III Abstract and relative approaches to negligence
IV Our concept of negligence BILITY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN LAW OF DELICT
CHAPTER 2: INTENT
I Introduction
II Why intention matters to the determination of liability
III The nature and content of the intention required for liability
PART 2: WRONGFULNESS INTRODUCTION TO WRONGFULNESS
CHAPTER 3: WRONGS COMMITTED BY NEGLIGENTLY CAUSING HARM
I INTRODUCTION
II The breach of a duty not to cause harm
negligently
III The law determining when negligent
harm-causing was wrongful
IV The deeper-lying considerations determining when negligent harm-causing was wrongful
CHAPTER 4: WRONGS COMMITTED BY INTENTIONALLY CAUSING HARM
I introduction
II The breach of a duty not to cause harm intentionally
III The law determining when intended harm-causing was WRONGFUL
IV The deeper-lying considerations determining when intended harm-causing was wrongful
PART 3: CAUSATION AND REMOTENESS INTRODUCTION TO CAUSATION AND REMOTENESS
CHAPTER 5: CAUSATION
I Introduction
II The but for test
III The cases HE SOUTH AFRICAN LAW OF DELICT
CHAPTER 6: REMOTENESS
I Introduction
II The point of remoteness
III The flexible test
IV The cases
TABLE OF CASES
TABLE OF STATUTES
INDEX
Interest / Benefit to
Legal academics
Legal students
Legal practitioners