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Economic Torts by Tony Weir, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, xiii + 127 + (index) 2 pp (hardback £17.99)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hazel Carty
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Legal Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1998 , pp. 231 - 234
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1998

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References

1. [1952] Ch 646.

2. [1898] AC 1.

3. 119 NW 946, Minn (1909).

4. Giblan v NALUGBI [1903] 2 KB 600.

5. [1964] AC 1129.

6. [1983] 2 AII ER 189.

7. [1994] Entertainment and Media Law Reports 44.

8. (1853)118 Eng Rep 749.

9. Of course, he also extracted ‘inconsistent dealings’ as a variety of this tort, but this reviewer has problems seeing why tortious liability should accrue in such a case, on any basis.

10. [1969] 1 AII ER 522.

11. [1993] IRLR 232. The Court of Appeal overturned the decision.

12. J Fleming The Law of Torts (8th edn, 1992) p 693; J Finnis Intention in Tort Law in Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law (D Owen (ed) 1995) p 229; J D Heydon Economic Torts (2nd edn, 1978) pp 128ff.

13. Though he is willing to acknowledge that formalism may lead to liability where it should not and cites, as a possible answer to this. the German view that not every induced breach of contract is relevant, but only breaches of principal obligations.