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Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law 6th Edition

Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law 6th Edition

Author: Simon Deakin; Angus Johnston; Basil Markesinis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199282463
Published In: September 2007
Format: Paperback , 1160 pages
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The academic perspectives combined with a highly readable style encourages reflection and analysis, aiding students to develop these increasingly important cutting-edge skills

Unlike many other textbooks, contains a chapter on defences and remedies, broadening the students' knowledge and giving them a more rounded understanding of the law of torts

New to this edition

Chapters have not just been updated but extensively re-written to incorporate new material and new ideas

Key recent developments, including the growing impact of the Human Rights Act, are given clear coverage

The material has been broken down into a greater number of smaller chapters to allow teachers and students to focus on those subjects they wish to study

Judicial views, while given due deference, are often reviewed critically in order to make readers think and reflect more about the state of the law

Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and well-established textbook, reaching its sixth edition in the space of twenty years. It provides a general overview of the law and full discussion of the academic debates on all major topics, highlighting the relationship between the common law, legislation, and judicial policy as well as the new European influences emanating from Luxembourg and Strasbourg. In addition, the authors provide a variety of comparative and economic perspectives on the law of tort and its likely development, always placing the subject in its socio-economic context thus giving students a deeper and richer understanding of tort law.

Written by leading authorities on tort law, this detailed book offers teachers a wide range of topics to cover while offering students a text which is both descriptive and reflective of this branch of law. A bibliography and rich footnotes provide interested readers with further references.

Readership: Suitable for students as well as academics and practitioners of tort law.

I Setting the scene

1: Introduction

II The tort of negligence

2: Establishing liability in principle

3: Other elements of liability

4: An American perspective on negligence

III Special forms of negligence

5: Liability of occupiers and builders

6: Breach of statutory duty

7: Liability of statutory bodies

IV Interference with the person

8: Intentional interference

9: Malicious prosecution

V Land and chattels and intentional interference with economic interests

10: Interference with chattels

11: Land

12: Lesser interferences with land nuisance

13: Deceit

14: The economic torts

VI Stricter forms of liability

15: The rule of Rylands v Fletcher

16: Liability for animals

17: Employer's liability

18: Vicarious liability

19: Product liability

VII Protection of human dignity (in private law)

20: Defamation and injurious falsehood

21: Privacy

22: Defamation and privacy: the American perspective

VIII: Defences and remedies

23: Defences

24: Damages

25: Other remedies and multiple liabilities

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Simon Deakin, FBA,, Professor of Law and a Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Angus Johnston, Tutor and Director of Studies in Law, Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and University Lecturer in Law, Universitu of Cambridge, and Sir Basil Markesinis QC, FBA,, Corresponding Fellow of the French Academy; Jamail Regents Chair of Law, University of Texas

"Review from previous edition ...one of the best textbooks available to students. The text is highly readable and explains all of the relevant areas in great detail. A definite recommendation for any tort law student." - Student Law Journal