See also a useful Australian article at http://www.simpsons.com.au/documents/visarts/visarts89/18Dutyof.pdf
There is a reference in it to the Occupier's Liability Act 1983, which
was introduced in my State of Victoria in that year.
See now the Victorian Wrongs Act 1958 (as amended) Part IIA - dealing
specifically with Occupier's Liability.
It is viewable at:-
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/wa1958111/
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Ronald Huttner <rshutt@netspace.net.au>
> Date: 7 November 2008 10:45:47 AM
> To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu, Donald Buffaloe <Donald.Buffaloe@pepperdine.edu
> >
> Subject: Fwd: [LAW-LIB:57200] English Tort Law History - Where To
> Research It - A Further Reference For You
>
> See also the very useful discussion of this topic in the decision of
> the High Court Of Australia (the highest court in our judicial
> hierarchy) in Hackshaw v. Shaw (1984) 155 CLR 614 (11 December 1984)
> at:-
> http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/HCA/1984/84.html?query=occupier's%20liability
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Ronald Huttner <rshutt@netspace.net.au>
>> Date: 7 November 2008 10:35:35 AM
>> To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu, Donald Buffaloe <Donald.Buffaloe@pepperdine.edu
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [LAW-LIB:57200] English Tort Law History - Where To
>> Research It
>>
>> Don,
>> The law relating to occupier's liability has been reformed, and
>> assimilated to the general law of negligence, in heaps of common-
>> law jurisdictions around the world now.
>> What would be a more productive way in which to research your
>> Professor's question would be to concentrate on pinning down the
>> reports of the many law reform commissions and agencies that
>> examined carefully the need for reform in this area of tort law.
>> Have a thorough look at the various links available at:-
>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=reform+of+the+law+relating+to+occupier%27s+liability&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=100&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images
>>
>> Ronald Huttner LL.B (Hons)
>> (Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Law Lecturer and Legal Researcher
>> Melbourne
>> Victoria
>> Australia
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/11/2008, at 10:21 AM, Buffaloe, Donald wrote:
>>
>>> Please excuse the cross-posting. I have been researching an issue
>>> involving the development of tort law and am hoping that someone
>>> can provide some assistance. It involves the law of negligence
>>> and varying degrees of the duty of care owed by the occupier of
>>> land to visitors divided into the categories trespassers,
>>> licensees and invitees. I am looking for a more in-depth
>>> discussion of this statement:
>>>
>>> The law relating to responsibility on dangerous premises long
>>> resisted the pervasive trend of measuring the existence and scope
>>> of duties of care by the broad standards of foreseeability of harm
>>> and reasonable conduct. Until well into the middle of the
>>> nineteenth century the prominence and social prestige attached to
>>> landholding defied all serious challenge to the claim by occupiers
>>> to be left free to in the enjoyment and exploitation of the
>>> demesne without subordination to the interest of the general public.
>>> John G. Fleming, An Introduction to the Law of Torts 68 (1985).
>>>
>>> The professor who asked me to research this issue thinks that the
>>> in-depth discussion would appear in a treatise on the history of
>>> English law and not a treatise on tort law, periodical article or
>>> case law. We have several treaties on the history of English law,
>>> including Holdsworth, William S., A history of English law, 7th
>>> ed.; edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury (1956-1966) and
>>> Fifoot, C. H. S., History and sources of the common law: tort and
>>> contract (1949). I could not find anything in these treatises.
>>>
>>> I have also looked in Blackstone, Commentaries; Stephen’s
>>> Commentaries on the Laws of England and various treatises on tort
>>> law: Fleming, Salmond, and Clerk & Lindsell. When I have found
>>> some discussion of this, it is usually under the index entry
>>> “occupier”. I have also been able to find relevant materials
>>> using the table of contents under the broad category “negligence”
>>> and the sub-category “duty of care”.
>>>
>>> I would be very grateful if anyone has any suggestions on new ways
>>> to approach this project or sources that would contain this in-
>>> depth discussion. Thank you.
>>>
>>> Don Buffaloe
>>> Senior Research Services Librarian
>>> Pepperdine University School of Law
>>> 24255 Pacific Coast Hwy.
>>> Malibu CA 90263
>>> E-mail: Donald.Buffaloe@pepperdine.edu
>>> Telephone: (310) 506-4823 Fax: (310) 506-4836
>>
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