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PART ONE: THE STRUCTURE OF THE MODERN LAW 1. Liability for carelessness 2. Evaluation of conduct 3. Causation and remoteness PART TWO: NEGLIGENCE AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS 4. Liability for negligent misstatement 5. Financial loss caused by careless acts PART THREE: PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE 6. General principles 7. Clinical negligence 8. Lawyers 9. Property and finance PART FOUR: LAND USE LIABILITY IN NEGLI-GENCE AND NUISANCE 10. Liability of occupiers 11. Duties to neighbouring occupiers 12. Interference with comfort and enjoyment 13. Physical damage to land and buildings 14. Public nuisance PART FIVE: NEGLIGENCE AGAINST A STATU-TORY BACKGROUND 15. Negligence and the exercise of statutory powers 16. The action for breach of statutory duty PART SIX: EMPLOYERS・LIABILITY 17. Employers' liability to their employees 18. Vicarious liability PART SEVEN: DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS 19. The common law 20. Strict liability by statute PART EIGHT: DEFENCES 21. Assumption of risk 22. Contribution and exclusion 23. Defences in nuisance PART NINE: DAMAGES AND THEIR ASSESS-MENT 24. The making of awards in personal injury cases 25. Damages recoverable for personal injury 26. Cases involving death 27. Property damage and other losses 28. Limitation of actions PART TEN: NUISANCE: REDRESS FOR CON-TINUING INTERFERENCE 29. Injunctions 30. Abatement of nuisance PART ELEVEN: TORT, THE STATE AND THE FUTURE 31. Insurance and state provision 32. Reform?