Clerk & Lindsell on Torts, 25th Edition

Clerk & Lindsell on Torts, part of the Common Law Library series, is an essential reference book that is widely referred to by practitioners and cited by the judiciary throughout the UK and the Commonwealth, and also forms the point of reference worldwide for those wishing to research the English law of torts.

Key Features:

New material in the Twenty-Fifth Edition:

• Manchester Ship Canal v United Utilities on water rights and nuisance
• CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals on damages for shortened life
• Tindall v Thames Valley Police on liability for omissions
• Paul v Wolverhampton NHS Trust on liability for psychiatric damage
• Holmes v Poeton Holdings on concurrent causation
• Lewis-Ranwell v G4S on recovery for the consequences of a criminal conviction
• Lifestyle Equities v Ahmed on the personal liability of company directors
• Cannell v George on malicious falsehood and special damage
• Armstead v RSA on recovery for damage to property
• Credit Suisse v Ivanishvili on deceit
• URS v BDW on liability for defective cladding
• Yerbury v Azets Holdings on accountants’ liability as receivers
• XGY v Sussex on immunity in respect of court proceedings
• Harcombe v Associated Newspapers on the erstwhile Reynolds defence in libel
• Setu Kamal v Tax Policy Associates on SLAPPs in defamation law

• Provides unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage on all areas of tort law
• Sets out the general principles of liability and causation
• Explains in detail general defences, such as claimant’s wrongdoing, consent and assumption of risk, exclusion of liability and miscellaneous defences
• Covers all areas of tort, from joint liability and vicarious liability to capacity and parties, from negligence to breach of statutory duty and professional liability, and from product liability and occupiers’ liability to employers’ liability and public service liability
• Deals with other important areas from malicious prosecution to wrongful interference with goods, from deceit to trespass to land, from liability for animals to nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher, and from malicious falsehood to the economic torts
• Includes fully updated and detailed chapters on defamation, breach of confidence and misuse of private information
• Deals extensively with damages and other remedies including injunctions
• Covers limitation periods in detail
• Considers all heads of liability with regard to the relevant human rights issues