AuthorDiening, Joseph August Anton. author
TitleOn Reasonable Liability [electronic resource] : A Comparison of Dutch and Canadian Law regarding the limits of criminal liability / by Joseph August Anton Diening
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1982
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6462-7
Descript XV, 437 p. online resource

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Law
  2. Criminal law
  3. Law
  4. Criminal Law