On Reasonable Liability : A Comparison of Dutch and Canadian Law Regarding the Limits of Criminal Liability

Lex rlUB laudatu~ quando ~atione p~otatu~. Broom, Max Front Matter....Pages i-xv Prologue....Pages 1-2 Front Matter....Pages 3-4 Introduction....Pages 5-6 Canadian Common Law....Pages 7-38 Dutch Civil Law....Pages 39-60 Legislative Powers in Canada....Pages 61-76 The Judiciary....Pages 77-82 Sources of Canadian Criminal Law....Pages 83-88 Basic Notions....Pages 89-104 The Qualifying Factors....Pages 105-136 The Disqualifying Factors....Pages 137-166 Negligence....Pages 167-174 Causality....Pages 175-180 Reasonable Attribution of Liability....Pages 181-204 Criminal Liability....Pages 205-207 Front Matter....Pages 209-210 Strict Liability....Pages 211-222 Strict Liability in Dutch Criminal Law....Pages 223-238 Some Fictions in Common Law....Pages 239-276 Strict Responsibility and Penal Offences....Pages 277-308 An Aside with Respect to Evidence....Pages 309-318 The Res ipsa Argument....Pages 319-330 Front Matter....Pages 209-210 Justification of Punishment for Negligence....Pages 331-336 The Case in Favor and Against Strict Responsibility....Pages 337-350 Separating the Strict from the Absolute....Pages 351-360 The Halfway House Doctrine....Pages 361-364 Due Diligence Before the Courts....Pages 365-368 In Defence of Due Diligence....Pages 369-382 The AVIS Defence....Pages 383-392 The Defence of Due Diligence in Canadian Criminal Law Epilogue....Pages 393-404 Epilogue....Pages 405-406 Samenvatting....Pages 407-409 Back Matter....Pages 411-437 Door J.a.a. Diening. Originally Presented As The Author's Thesis, Nijmegen, 1982. Bibliography: P. 433-435.