The law of misstatements : 50 years on from Hedley Byrne v Heller /
Law of misstatements : fifty years on from Hedley Byrne versus Heller
edited by Kit Barker, Ross Grantham and Warren Swain.
- xxxvii, 369 pages ; 24 cm.
- Hart studies in private law ; volume 14 .
- Hart studies in private law ; v. 14. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hedley Byrne v Heller : issues at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Hedley Byrne v Heller in Australia : "never has there been such a judicial jamboree" / The assumption of responsibility / Basis of the Hedley Byrne action / The curious incident of the dog that did bark in the night-time : what mischief does Hedley Byrne v Heller correct? / Equity as tort? / Limitations on defendant liability for misleading or deceptive conduct under statute : some insights from negligent misstatement / Advisor liability : claims for contribution or reimbursement between an advisor and the advisee's contract-partner / What are we doing here? : the relationship between negligence in general and misstatements in English law / Negligent misstatement in the United States / Hedley Byrne : misused, then exiled by the Supreme Court of Canada / Liability under Hedley Byrne for "pre-contract" negligent misrepresentation : a New Zealand perspective / Negligent misstatement in Australia : resolving the uncertain legacy of Esanda / Kit Barker -- Warren Swain -- Andrew Robertson and Julia Wang -- Allan Beever -- David Campbell -- Paul Finn -- Elise Bant and Jeannie Paterson -- Sirko Harder -- Christian Witting -- Jay M. Feinman -- Bruce Feldthusen -- David McLauchlan -- Kit Barker.