Details
- Contains key cases and materials with substantial author text, providing students with a complete, stand-alone resource
- Contains extracts from a wide variety of sources, which encourages students to acquire a good understanding of a range of different perspectives
- Stimulating text encourages students to engage actively with the subject and to gain an understanding of tort law in context
- The two-colour page design enables the reader to distinguish easily between the author text and the case extracts
New to this edition
- Each part will include a brief introduction explaining the structure and contextualising the topics covered
- The new Online Resource Centre will feature regular updates and a list of useful web links for further study
Tort Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers a clear, thorough, and engaging guide to tort law. The author's clarity of expression enables the reader to gain a secure understanding of the fundamental principles of the subject, whilst also facilitating an appreciation of the more complex tensions and debates surrounding the contemporary law of tort.
This stimulating text presents a wide range of critical perspectives and an excellent selection of extracts from cases and academic commentaries, providing students with the detailed knowledge and analytical tools required to engage fully with this fascinating subject.
The book is intended to be both a stand-alone text and to provide students with a comprehensive source of relevant mateirals, and undergraduates will find everything they need in this one convenient and easy-to-use volume.
Online Resource Centre
- Regular updates
- Web links to guide students in further study
Readership: Undergraduates studying tort law as part of their LLB programme.
- Contents:
- I. Introductory
- 1. The shape of tort law today
- II. International Interferences
- 2. Intentional torts
- III. The tort of negligence
- 3. Essentials of negligence I: establishing negligence
- 4. Essentials of negligence II: problems of causation
- 5. Essentials of negligence III: defences
- 6. Applications of the duty concept
- IV. Compensation and damages
- 7. Limitation and contribution
- 8. Damages and the question of accident compensation
- V. Enhanced responsibility
- 9. Dangerous activities, employers' liability, vicarious liability
- VI. Nuisance and dangers arising from occupation
- 10. Nuisance
- 11. Rylands v Fletcher: strict liability
- 12. Liability for dangerous premises
- VII. Protection of reputation and related interests
- 13. Defamation
- 14. Privacy and protection from harassment
- VIII. Specific areas of tort protection
- 15. Product liability
- 16. Breach of statutory duty
- 17. Interference with property ;
Jenny Steele, Director of Research, York Law School, University of York
Review(s) from previous edition
"An ideal companion for navigating the law of torts in its contemporary context. - Legal Studies, Vol. 28 No. 2
"Texts incorporating cases and materials can easily appear dense and overwhelming to student eyes. There are two principal reasons why this book has no such appearance. First, the font and layout of the text make all the materials look accessible and, secondly, the materials have been selected and edited in such a way that they actually are accessible. None of the extracts are unnecessarily lengthy, and the author's analysis regularly breaks up any complex material so as to clarify any difficult points, and to encourage the reader to identify and consider the most relevant issues in more depth." - Legal Studies, Vol. 28 No. 2
