Tort Law, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (July 5, 2024) © 2024

  • Nicholas J McBride Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Roderick Bagshaw Magdalen College, Oxford
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Title overview

For students studying tort law at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

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.

Table of contents

  • Table of statutes, statutory instruments and conventions
  • Tort law in a nutshell
  • Trespass to the personal
  • 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

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