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

Attaran, Amir

doi:10.2139/ssrn.879686

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

24 Pages Posted: 31 Jan 2006

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Amir Attaran

University of Ottawa - Common Law Section; University of Ottawa - Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

Date Written: January 2006

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 in the course of 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.

Keywords: foreign aid, negligence law, Bangladesh, arsenic, common law

JEL Classification: I38, K13, K32, F35

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Attaran, Amir and Attaran, Amir, Will Negligence Law Poison the Well of Foreign Aid? A Case Comment on: Binod Sutradhar V. Natural Environment Research Council (January 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=879686 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.879686