1 LIABILITY AS REGULATION Simon Halliday, University of Strathclyde: Colin Scott, University College Dublin Corresponding Author: Colin.scott@ucd.ie Compensation Culture Project Working Paper No.1 This working paper is an output of A Compensation Culture? A Comparative Investigation of the Risk Management of Legal Liability in Public Services in Scotland and Ireland funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Economic and Social Research Council