Help your students begin to understand tort law like professionals with this accessible text. Written by two leading scholars, Tort Law, 7th edition,provides a comprehensive and easily accessible account of all areas of tort law, as well as discussion of the key academic debates and literature in this subject. It is ideal for use by anyone studying tort law or private law at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
Brief contents Table of cases
Table of statutes, statutory instruments and conventions
Tort law in a nutshell
Trespass to the personl
Claims in negligence
Duty of care (1) - introduction
Duty of care (2) - physical injury cases
Duty of care (3) - psychiatric illness cases
Duty of care (4) - property damage cases
Duty of care (5) - pure economic loss cases
Duty of care (6) - other cases
Breach of duty
Causation (1) - the standard tests
Causation (2) - exceptions to the standard tests
Actionability
Occupiers' liability
Product and building liability
Property torts (1) - trespass to land
Property torts (2) - private nuisance
Liability for dangerous things
Property torts (3) - torts to personal property
Defamation
Invasion of privacy
Abusive torts
Economic torts
Criminal torts
Remedies (1) - defences
Remedies (2) - compensatory damages
Remedies (3) - non-compensatory damages
Remedies (4) - injunctions
Remedies (5) - who can sue?
Remedies (6) - who can be sued?
Appendix A Tort law and human rights
Appendix B Loss compensation schemes
Appendix C Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1
Index
