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"This book explores the performance of compensation law in addressing the needs of the injured. Compensation procedure can be dangerous to your health and often fails to compensate without aggravation/ creating other problems. This book takes a refreshing and insightful approach to the law of c...
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| Published: |
Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Hart studies in private law ;
volume 34 |
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| Summary: |
"This book explores the performance of compensation law in addressing the needs of the injured. Compensation procedure can be dangerous to your health and often fails to compensate without aggravation/ creating other problems. This book takes a refreshing and insightful approach to the law of compensation, considering from an interdisciplinary perspective the actual effect of compensation law on people seeking compensation. Tort law, workers' compensation, medical law, industrial injury law and other schemes are examined and unintended consequences for injured people are considered. These in |
| Item Description: | "This book arose out of a symposium held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in March 2018"--ECIP introduction. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 298 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781509927999 (hardcover) : 1509927999 (hardcover) 9781509928019 (electronic book) 1509928014 (electronic book) 9781509928002 (electronic publication) 1509928006 (electronic publication) |
| Index Number: | K923 |
| CLC: | D971.225-532 |
| Call Number: | D971.225-532/U569/2018 |
| Contents: | An overview of some unexpected consequences of Compensation Law / Prue Vines and Arno Akkermans -- Achieving justice in personal injury compensation : the need to address the emotional dimensions of suffering a wrong / Arno Akkermans -- Compensation and health / Ian Cameron -- Apples, oranges and bananas : comparative studies in Australian workers' compensation systems / Alex Collie -- Workers' compensation in Canada : experiences of precariously employed workers in the return to work process after injury / Katherine Lippel, Ellen Maceachen and Sonja Senthanar -- Safe as houses? : lump sum d |