On Reasonable Liability

A Comparison of Dutch and Canadian Law Regarding the Limits of Criminal Liability

von J A Diening

437 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

- Prologue.- One - Summary Notes on the Criminal Law of Canada.- One - Introduction.- Two - Canadian Common Law.- Three - Dutch Civil Law.- Four - Legislative Powers in Canada.- Five - The Judiciary.- Six - Sources of Canadian Criminal Law.- Seven - Basic Notions.- Eight - The Qualifying Factors.- Nine - The Disqualifying Factors Grounds for Impunity.- Ten - Negligence.- Eleven - Causality.- Twelve - Reasonable Attribution of Liability.- Thirteen - Criminal Liability.- Two - On Reasonaple Liability.- One - Strict Liability.- Two - Strict Liability in Dutch Criminal Law.- Three - Some Fictions in Common Law.- Four - Strict Responsibility and Penal Offences.- Five - An Aside with Respect to Evidence.- Six - The Res Ipsa Argument.- Seven - Justification of Punishment for Negligence.- Eight - The Case in Favor and Against Strict Responsibility.- Nine - Separating the Strict from the Absolute.- Ten - The Halfway House Doctrine.- Eleven - Due Diligence Before the Courts.- Twelve - In Defence of Due Diligence.- Thirteen - The AVAS Defence.- Fourteen - The Defence of Due Diligence in Canadian Criminal Law.- - Epilogue.- - Samenvatting.- - Footnotes.- Table of Cases.- Common Law Cases.- Dutch Case Law.- Curriculum Vitae.

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• ISBN: 9789060002506
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.1982
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Springer