Intentional Conduct and the Operation of the Civil Liability Acts: Unanswered Questions
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Title
Intentional Conduct and the Operation of the Civil Liability Acts: Unanswered Questions
Description
The Civil Liability Acts place significant limitations and caps on the damages that are recoverable for claims caught by those Acts or relevant parts thereof. Such limitations and preclusions significantly impact on what were plaintiffs’ existing common law rights prior to the passage of the CLAs. Importantly, however, many of those limitations do not apply to certain classes of claims excluded from the operation of the CLAs. The focus of this article is on some widely (but not uniformly) adopted exclusions to the operation of the CLAs, namely that many parts of the CLAs do not apply to claims arising from types of intentional conduct. Many of these limitations are express; but other limitations raise issues of intention that are less patent. The precise reach of the ‘intentional conduct’ exclusions in the CLAs has not been resolved and many important questions remain unanswered. This is despite the increasing number of cases coming before the courts in which plaintiffs are attempting to circumvent the operation of the CLAs. The issues will continue to attract judicial attention. This article considers the different interpretation and operation of the ‘intentional conduct’ exclusions in the CLAs and seeks to answer some of unanswered questions.
Creator
Dietrich, Joachim
Source
The University of Queensland Law Journal; Vol. 39 No. 2 (2020): The University of Queensland Law Journal; 197-223
1839-289X
0083-4041
Publisher
The University of Queensland School of Law
Date
2020-08-19
Rights
Copyright (c) 2020 The University of Queensland Law Journal
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
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Citation
Joachim Dietrich, Intentional Conduct and the Operation of the Civil Liability Acts: Unanswered Questions, The University of Queensland School of Law, 2020, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2635