Negotiating Tragedy: How the Law Deals with Disasters

An analysis of the legal responses to disasters. The book brings together the traditional responses of personal injury and other civil litigation, along with developments in criminal litigation, especially in corporate criminal liability.

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In this book, Celia Wells draws on a wide range of legal and other sources to analyse how various agencies and legal structures interact in responding to disasters. In doing so, she brings together the areas of personal injury and other civil litigation; public law responses such as emergency planning and public enquiries; and the increasing use of criminal prosecution as a mechanism of blame following disaster.