Details
- An introductory casebook offering a selection of concise extracts from leading cases, enabling students to understand how judicial decisions are made
- Key tort law texts have been identified by the author as recommended reading for students who wish to develop a broader knowledge of the subject
- An accompanying Online Resource Centre provides regular updates and web links, ensuring students are kept abreast of new developments
New to this edition
- The twelfth edition has been fully updated to include the following new case extracts: on liability of public bodies: Desmond v The Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire; on economic loss: Conarken v Network Rail Infrastructure; on defamation: Spiller v Joseph (a Supreme Court case on fair comment), and Metropolitan International Schools v Designtechnica Corporation (on internet libel)
- Following significant and controversial developments in the area of privacy, greater attention is paid to this increasingly important topic, including incorporation of the following key case extracts: on privacy: Mosley v News Group Newspapers, and the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Mosley v UK and alsoJIH v News Group Newspapers (on the issue of injunctions in privacy cases)
Casebook on Torts is essential reading for students new to studying tort law at undergraduate level, providing a comprehensive, portable library of the leading cases in the field. It presents an impressive range of carefully edited extracts, which clearly illustrate the essence and reasoning behind each decision made. Concise author commentary focuses the reader on the key elements within the extracts, while end-of-chapter questions encourages them to check their understanding as they progress. Statutory materials have been included where they are necessary to understand the subject. The book is an indispensable companion for tort law students.
The text is supported by an Online Resource Centre which provides regular updates on developments in the law as well as web links to aid further study.
Readership: Suitable for undergraduate students taking a module in tort law as part of the LLB. Also suitable for students taking a module in tort law on a law conversion course.
1: Introduction
2: Negligence: the basic principles of duty of care
3: Breach of duty: the standard of care
4: Causation and remoteness of damage
5: Special duty problems: omissions
6: Special duty problems: liability of public bodies
7: Special duty problems: psychiatric injury
8: Special duty problems: statements, services and economic loss
9: Special duty problems: Acts and economic loss
10: Special duty problems: contract and duty of care
11: Special duty problems:defective structures
12: Special duty problems: unborn children, wrongful life and wrongful birth
13: Defences to negligence
14: Damages for death and personal injuries
15: Vicarious liability
16: Breach of statutory duty
17: Product liability
18: Occupiers' liability
19: Nuisance
20: Trespass to the person
21: Trespass to land
22: Defamation
23: Privacy and the intentional infliction of distress
Richard Kidner, Emeritus Professor of Law, Aberystwyth University
Richard Kidner is Emeritus Professor of Law at Aberystwyth University. He also edits Blackstone's Statutes on Employment Law, also published by Oxford University Press.
Review(s) from previous edition
"It is certainly a welcome and essential text for anyone interested in this area of law, particularly those interested in the torts which receive rarer coverage. - Student Law Journal
