Voluminous study about European practice of compensation of damage is published in Germany. The total volume of the book is 1175 pages, containing significant judgments of 26 European countries about 27 categories of cases about compensation of damage.

Categories of cases selected according to programme offered four years ago by the main coordinator of the study – Institute of Tort Law of Austrian Academy of Sciences – and accepted by experts invited from member states of this project, inter alia, the senator of the Supreme Court, professor Kalvis Torgans was asked to represent Latvia.   

Cases collected reflect great diversity, and also the fact that concrete court cases about compensation of damage, for example, in relation to holidays spoiled, opportunities lost, unwanted birth of a child, sponsor lost, destruction of a thing of personal value, etc., were not reviewed in all countries. So, this study may be useful to Latvian courts in cases, when those will have to come in touch with particular kinds of torts already evaluated in other countries.

This book is the second in series “Digest of European Tort Law” (the first book touched an issue about causations in torts, published in 2007, and K.Torgans also participated in its processing). Scientific editors of the book performed great systematisation and editorial work, not diminishing importance of contribution of each author.

 

Original title of the book: Digest of European Tort Law. Volume 2: Essential cases on Damage. B.Winiger, H.Koziol, B.A.Koch, R.Zimmermann (eds). De Gruter.2011.

You may read about purchase opportunities here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digest-European-Tort-Law-Essential/dp/3110248484 or http://www.kriso.lv/Digest-European-Tort-Law-Essential-Cases/db/9783110248487.html

 

Information prepared by

Rasma Zvejniece, the Head of the Division of Communication of the Supreme Court

E-mail: rasma.zvejniece@at.gov.lv, telephone: 67020396, 2865221