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Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law, 8th Edition

Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law, 8th Edition

Name: Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law, 8th Edition
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198747963
Price: 743.86 HKD
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Author: Simon Deakin, FBA; Angus Johnston; Sir Basil Markesinis QC, FBA
ISBN: 9780198747963

Edited by Simon Deakin, FBA · Angus Johnston · Sir Basil Markesinis QC, FBA

Oxford University Press September 2019

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780198747963
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: September 2019
Format: Paperback , 1008 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and well-established textbook, now in its eighth edition. 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. 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 thereby 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 providing students with a text which is both descriptive and reflective of this branch of law.

I. Setting the scene
1: Introduction
2: Some general warnings for the novice tort lawyer
II The tort of negligence
3: Establishing liability in principle: duty of care
4: Liability for fault: breach
5: Liability for damage caused: causation and remoteness
III Special Forms of Negligence
6: Liability for occupiers and builders
7: Breach of statutory duty
8: Liability of public and statutory bodies
IV Interference with the person
9: Intentional interference
10: Malicious prosecution
V Land, Chattels and Intentional Interference with Economic Interests
11: Interference with chattels
12: Land
13: Lesser interferences with land: nuisance
14: Deceit
15: The economic torts
VI Stricter forms of Liability
16: The rule of Rylands v Fletcher
17: Liability for animals
18: Employer's liability
19: Vicarious liability
20: Product liability
VII Protection of Human Dignity (in Private Law)
21: Defamation and injurious falsehood
22: The protection of human privacy
VIII: Defences and Remedies
23: Defences
24: Damages
25: Other remedies and multiple liabilities
Index

About the Author

Simon Deakin, FBA, Professor of Law and a Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Angus Johnston, CUF Lecturer and a Fellow in Law at University College, Oxford University, and Sir Basil Markesinis QC, FBA, Corresponding Fellow of the French Academy; Jamail Regents Chair of Law, University of Texas

Professor Simon Deakin is Professor of Law and a Fellow of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge.

Mr Angus Johnston is a CUF Lecturer and a Fellow in Law at University College, Oxford University.

Professor Sir Basil Markesinis QC is Jamail Regents Chair of Law, University of Texas and is an honorary QC.

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