Court delivered on February 10, 2010 (1) attempted to circumscribe the scope of criminal liability for negligence by doctors and hospitals. The law of professional negligence, especially in the case of doctors, has been formulated in such a way as to eliminate fear and anxiety about legal consequences while making professional judgements during diagnosis and treatment. The decision reiterated t...

the problem of mental causation was one of the most important problems in philosophy of mind at least from the time of descartes. since cartesian philosophers found the causal interaction of the soul and the body problematic, they explained away the direct relation between the soul and the body in different ways. however, the problem was not resolved in contemporary philosophy of mind when the ...

The liability rule traditionally used in accident law when both the injurer’s and the victim’s behaviour affect the likelihood of an accident occurring is the rule of contributory negligence. Under it, the injurer is liable for the full amount of the victim’s damage only if the injurer’s behavior is negligent and the victim’s behavior is non-negligent. If both parties are negligent, only the vi...

Forensic psychiatrists are not as vulnerable to liability as general psychiatrists. The absence of a traditional physician-patient relationship and judicial and quasijudicial immunity are all protective against malpractice actions. Although the absence of a doctor-patient relationship removes an essential element of malpractice, other types of liability such as defamation and ordinary negligenc...

Abstract Background Professional communities such as the medical community are acutely concerned with negligence: category of misconduct where a professional does not live up to standards expected similar qualifications. Since science is currently strengthening its structures self-regulation in parallel professions, this raises question what extent scientific negligence, and if not, whether it ...