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Landmarks of No-Fault in the Common Law

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Shifts in Compensation Between Private and Public Systems

Part of the book series: Tort and Insurance Law ((TIL,volume 22))

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Abstract

My starting point is an observation of the great Canadian judge and jurist, Justice Allen Linden, a longstanding enthusiast of no-fault compensation. “[N]o-fault,” he wrote, “means different things to different people.”1 It is, in fact, a term applied to a variety of alternatives to compensation by way of traditional, private law processes, not a unitary phenomenon. A major theme of this paper is that the shape no-fault has taken in different contexts has been dependent upon the social problem it was designed to solve. Yet it is still possible to find enough commonality in the different schemes that have emerged to make no-fault in the common law a worthy subject of study in its own right.

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Oliphant, K. (2007). Landmarks of No-Fault in the Common Law. In: van Boom, W.H., Faure, M. (eds) Shifts in Compensation Between Private and Public Systems. Tort and Insurance Law, vol 22. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-71554-3_3

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