UK negligence tort action re foreign aid project

Very good and interesting article on something that could turn out to be quite important in the years ahead, not just in the UK, but - in many respects far more likely, given the US tort system - in the United States. Abstract from the online bepress journal Global Jurist:


AUTHOR: Amir Attaran

TITLE: Will Negligence Law Poison the Well of Foreign Aid? A Case Comment on: Binod Sutradhar v. Natural Environment Research Council

SUGGESTED CITATION: Amir Attaran (2006) "Will Negligence Law Poison the Well of Foreign Aid? A Case Comment on: Binod Sutradhar v. Natural Environment Research Council", Global Jurist Advances: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 3.

http://www.bepress.com/gj/advances/vol6/iss1/art3

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ABSTRACT: Although the foreign aid enterprise is a multibillion dollar industry that is active worldwide, there appears never to have been a successful common law negligence action brought in respect of personal injury occasioned by a foreign aid scheme. In this paper, I discuss the first such case of this kind which is imminently to reach the House of Lords: Binod Sutradhar v. Natural Environment Research Council. Background is supplied on the contemporary foreign aid enterprise, and its relation to the principles of negligence, using Sutradhar as an explanatory vehicle.