Law in Context: Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law, 9th Edition

Part I. The Issues in Perspective:
1. Introduction: surveying the field

Part II. The Tort System in Theory:
2. Fault as a basis of liability
3. The scope of the tort of negligence
4. Departures from the fault principle
5. Causation and remoteness of damage
6. Damages for personal injury and death
7. An appraisal of the fault principle

Part III. The Tort System in Operation:
8. Claims and claimants
9. Tortfeasors and insurers
10. Settlements and trials

Part IV. Other Compensation Systems:
11. First-party insurance
12. Compensation for criminal injuries
13. The social security system
14. Other forms of assistance

Part V. The Overall Picture:
15. A plethora of systems
16. The cost of compensation and who pays it
17. The functions of compensation systems

Part VI. The Future:
18. Accident compensation in the twenty-first century.