Liability for Innocent but Negligent Misrepresentations

Civil Liability for Negligent Police Investigation: Canadian Developments

In October of 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its ruling in Hill v. Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Services Board, a case in which the Court addressed the legitimacy of a tort for negligent police investigation. The holding by a majority of six Justices recognized the tort of negligent police investigation at Canadian law. As such, Canada is now one of the only common law countries...

Tort liability to those injured by negligent accreditation decisions.

Misrepresentations

The concept of “representations”, and particularly “internal representations”, can be controversial in Cognitive Science and AI. It is suggested here that much time-wasting confusion could be avoided if participants in such controversies came to recognize the variety of different senses, often incompatible, in which such terms are used. A hypothesis is presented as to why there is so much reluc...

Defining the Borders of Uniform International Contract Law: The CISG and Remedies for Innocent, Negligent, or Fraudulent Misrepresentation

THE creation of uniform international contract law, as of uniform law in general, is never all-encompassing. Instead, uniform law instruments are typically limited in their scope, because the uniform provisions on which the drafters can agree are limited or because there is no need to unify neighboring areas of law. The borders of uniform contract law thereby created in turn create their own pr...

Islamic Ethics and Civil Liability in Compensating Innocent Prisoners: A Comparative Study of Iranian and American Law

Background: There are many cases in which the accused does not deserve to be detained and is detained without observing the legal terms and conditions or imprisoned due to a judicial error. In such cases, compensation for an innocent detainee is an important issue that needs to be addressed due to the violation of the fundamental rights of individuals. Therefore, the purpose of the present stud...