Title: Liability for products : English law, French law, and European harmonization /
Authors: Whittaker, Simon
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Products liability England.; Products liability France.; Products liability European Union countries.
Abstract: This comparative work considers French and English laws governing those who may be liable for products, such as producers, suppliers, users and their regulators. It explains existing legislation relating to the issues of liability and compensation and how EU harmonization will affect future laws.
Contents: Introduction to the private and public laws of liability in France -- Droit privé : delictual liability for fault and for the "deeds of things" -- Droit privé : the law of sale -- Droit privé : liability for the provision of services involving products -- Droit administratif and liability for products -- Public services, service public, and liability for products -- Introduction to private and public liability in English law -- The tort of negligence, its adjudication, and its satellites -- The English law of sale of goods -- The English law governing public services, private services, and liability for products -- French law : formal bases of liability and practical "irresponsibility" -- English law : recurrent themes and endemic casuistry -- Fraudes, homicides, and the role of the partie civile -- English law : crime, the criminal process, and "essentially civil claims" -- The creation and maintenance of eec directive on liability for defective products and the process of its implementation in the UK and France -- A closer look at the product liability directive -- The patterns of liability -- The consumer guarantees directive and its implementation in French and English law.