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Private Law and Building Safety
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Private Law and Building Safety
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This collection of essays explores the real-world problem of building safety through the lens of private law.
High profile building failures including the fire at Grenfell Tower, London, England and the collapse of Champlain Towers South, Florida, USA have exposed widespread building safety failures globally. In this book, international experts deploy a variety of different private law perspectives ranging through torts, contract and real property law, to examine building safety failures across the UK, USA, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Italy and Canada. The book offers policymakers, practitioners and scholars ground-breaking consideration of this vital yet under-considered aspect of the building safety crisis, along with new and valuable insights into the nature, limits and utility of private law.
The book shows that private law can be part of the solution to – as well as being part of the cause of – the building safety crisis. Consideration is given to existing legislative and judicial responses to the crisis, offering guidance as to how statutory regimes addressing the building safety problem (such as the Building Safety Act 2022) can best be understood and developed. A central lesson is the need to take an integrated, coherent approach, within and beyond private law. The book also illustrates that an understanding of the causes of, and responses to, the building safety crisis is vital to any theory of private law: private law is unable to fulfil its distinctive and crucial role of ordering our relations, one to another, if we adopt an unduly limited view of the reasons and resources available to it.
The book results from a joint research project by the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.
High profile building failures including the fire at Grenfell Tower, London, England and the collapse of Champlain Towers South, Florida, USA have exposed widespread building safety failures globally. In this book, international experts deploy a variety of different private law perspectives ranging through torts, contract and real property law, to examine building safety failures across the UK, USA, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Italy and Canada. The book offers policymakers, practitioners and scholars ground-breaking consideration of this vital yet under-considered aspect of the building safety crisis, along with new and valuable insights into the nature, limits and utility of private law.
The book shows that private law can be part of the solution to – as well as being part of the cause of – the building safety crisis. Consideration is given to existing legislative and judicial responses to the crisis, offering guidance as to how statutory regimes addressing the building safety problem (such as the Building Safety Act 2022) can best be understood and developed. A central lesson is the need to take an integrated, coherent approach, within and beyond private law. The book also illustrates that an understanding of the causes of, and responses to, the building safety crisis is vital to any theory of private law: private law is unable to fulfil its distinctive and crucial role of ordering our relations, one to another, if we adopt an unduly limited view of the reasons and resources available to it.
The book results from a joint research project by the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.
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Yes, you can access Private Law and Building Safety by Matthew Bell,Susan Bright,Ben McFarlane,Andrew Robertson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Comparative Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Introduction
- 1. Private Law and Building Safety: Problems and Promises
- 2. Tackling Building Safety Through Private Law: A Comparative Analysis
- 3. The Surfside Condominium Collapse: What Lessons have been Learned?
- 4. The Role of Private Law in Promoting Building Safety: The Case of Singapore
- 5. Building Safety in Canada: Has Winnipeg Condominium Had an Impact?
- 6. Defective Premises and Economic Loss: A Problem Best Left to Legislation?
- 7. Tort as a Tool of Government Policy: Section 38 of the Building Act 1984: Sleeping Beauty Awakes?
- 8. Rationalising Associate Liability under the Building Safety Act 2022
- 9. Procedural Challenges and Opportunities for Leaseholders
- 10. Private Law in the Ruins
- Index
- Copyright Page