Published by Pearson (July 5, 2024) © 2024
Nicholas McBride | Roderick BagshawHelp your students begin to understand tort law like professionals with this accessible text.
Written by two leading scholars, Tort Law, 7th edition,provides a comprehensive and easily accessible account of all areas of tort law, as well as discussion of the key academic debates and literature in this subject. It is ideal for use by anyone studying tort law or private law at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
Brief contents
Table of cases
Table of statutes, statutory instruments and conventions
- Tort law in a nutshell
- Trespass to the personl
- Claims in negligence
- Duty of care (1) – introduction
- Duty of care (2) – physical injury cases
- Duty of care (3) – psychiatric illness cases
- Duty of care (4) – property damage cases
- Duty of care (5) – pure economic loss cases
- Duty of care (6) – other cases
- Breach of duty
- Causation (1) – the standard tests
- Causation (2) – exceptions to the standard tests
- Actionability
- Occupiers' liability
- Product and building liability
- Property torts (1) – trespass to land
- Property torts (2) – private nuisance
- Liability for dangerous things
- Property torts (3) – torts to personal property
- Defamation
- Invasion of privacy
- Abusive torts
- Economic torts
- Criminal torts
- Remedies (1) – defences
- Remedies (2) – compensatory damages
- Remedies (3) – non-compensatory damages
- Remedies (4) – injunctions
- Remedies (5) – who can sue?
- Remedies (6) – who can be sued?
Appendix A Tort law and human rights
Appendix B Loss compensation schemes
Appendix C Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1
Index