Tort / Personal Injury

Thomson's Delictual Liability, 6th edition

By Gordon Cameron
Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing) November 2021

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ISBN-13
9781526518781
Publisher
Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
Publication
November 2021
Format
Paperback , 408 pages
Jurisdiction
Scotland ? Countri(es) for reference only
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Delictual Liability is a highly respected account of the principles of delict in Scots law providing practitioners and students alike with a guide to the general principles of this complex are of law.

Gordon Cameron LL.B. (Hons); M.Sc. has skilfully updated the sixth edition of this text throughout, taking account of the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 and major revisions in the areas of:

- Negligence
- Privacy
- Public authorities
- Nuisance
- Vicarious liability
- Defamation

Table of Contents

PART I INTENTIONAL DELICTS
1 Intentional wrongs in respect of persons and property
2 The economic wrongs and fraud

PART II UNINTENTIONAL DELICT – GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LIABILITY
3 The duty of care
4 Duty of care as a threshold device
5 Breach of a duty of care
6 Causation and related issues

PART III DELICTUAL LIABILITY IN SPECIFIC SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXTS
Introduction
7 Professional liability
8 Product liability
9 Delictual liability for animals
10 Delictual liability arising from ownership or occupation of property
11 Breach of statutory duty and public law issues
12 Employers' liability and vicarious liability
13 Delict and the family
14 Delict and road traffic
15 Defamation and verbal injury vii

PART IV DAMAGES
16 Damages

About the Author

Professor Joe Thomson was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission.

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