From: Hedley, Steve <S.Hedley@ucc.ie>
To: obligations@uwo.ca
Date: 10/02/2014 15:34:31 UTC
Subject: Mobile phones and the law

For those with an eye to problems characteristic of the early 21st century (and I’m thinking particularly of those producing exam papers around now), here is an interesting article on plaintiffs who sue for injuries they fail to avoid through being distracted by their mobile phones.  

 

Robert D Lang
“Don't Text, Talk, and Walk: The Emerging Smartphone Defense In Personal Injury Litigation”
77 Albany Law Review 1 (2014)
http://www.albanylawreview.org/issues/pages/article-information.aspx?volume=77&issue=2&page=1

 

 

 

 

Steve Hedley

Faculty of Law

University College Cork

 

9thlevel.ie

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