Title overview
Support your students' learning and understanding of the key concepts surrounding Tort Law with this powerful digital tool.
Revel for Law of Tort, 15th edition helps your students develop their skills and apply tort law to real-life problem scenarios through activities, self-tests, and writing tasks.
This reader-friendly, updated digital edition enables you to schedule student preparation for lectures and seminars, and assess their understanding of the topics, critical evaluation, and application of the law.
With the Revel edition, you can now challenge your students to give client advice based on evidence from real-life case files and help them think like a lawyer.
Learn more about Revel.
Hallmark features of this title
Clear, straightforward explanation of Tort Law that promotes understanding
- Explains key aspects of each topic through case and chapter summaries.
- Engages students by setting each chapter topic in the practical context.
- Aligns concise text to module objectives to focus effort.
Builds student confidence to apply their learning and improve through structured immediate feedback
- Assigned tasks encourage students to apply what they have learned to problem scenarios and practice writing essays.
- Immediate feedback on end-of-chapter MCQ exercises, 'Apply the Law' and 'Evaluate the Law' writing tasks support improvement.
Encourages students to think like a lawyer
- Students give client advice based on evidence from a real-life case file through mini simulations.
New and updated features of this title
The text comes fully updated, offering law coverage as well as a wealth of knowledge and experience based on some of the most recent cases in the field:
- Steel v NRAM Limited [2018] UKSC 13, on assumption of responsibility
- Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis vs DSD [2018] UKSC 11, on failure to investigate a rape
- Al-Najar v Cumberland Hotel [2019] EWHC 1593 posing the case around the duty to protect hotel guests from criminal acts of third parties
New cases added in 2023 demonstrate how theory applies to real life
- Meadows v Khan [2021] UKSC 21 on the scope of duty test in Donoghue v Stevenson
- Toombes v Mitchell [2020] EWHC 3506 on the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liabilities) Act 1976
- Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4 on what constitutes a private nuisance
- Hughes v Rattan [2022] EWCA Civ 107 and Uber and others v Aslam and others [2021] UKSC 5 on vicarious liability
New cases added in 2024 feature:
- McCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board [2023] UKSC 26 on p221 starting 'the question of alternative treatments'
- Barry Congregation v BXB [2023] UKSC 15 and MXX v A secondary school [2023] EWCA Civ 996 p499 on vicarious liability
- Banks v Cadwalladr [2023] EWCA 219 and Simon Blake v Laurence Fox [2023] EWCA Civ 1000 on libel
- Stoute v News Group Newspapers [2023] EWCA Civ 523 on privacy
New in 2025:
In response to research requests, we are introducing two new enhancements to this product:
1. Within certain chapters’ Apply the Law problem scenario, additional question(s) based on the Single Best Answer format set out by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE). These questions are designed to prepare undergraduate students for the SQE Part 1. They reflect the high importance of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) in law teaching.
2. A new testbank of multiple choice questions, designed to be used for assessments (ie no feedback / correct answer is shown). These testbanks are a mixture of scaffolded MCQs and Single Best Answer MCQs for each chapter. They are available to download from this website, for uploading into your virtual learning environment: Law of Tort.
The following cases and legislation have been added in the 2025 update:
- Paul v Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2022] EWCA Civ 12
- Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police [2024] UKSC 33
- Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police v Woodcock [2025] EWCA Civ 13
- HXA v Surrey County Council [2023] UKSC 52; [2024] 1 WLR 335
- Elbanna v Clark [2024] EWHC 627; Czernnuszka v King [2023] EWHC 380
- Meadows v Khan [2021] UKSC 21
- Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services (UK) Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 138
- Fearn v Trustees of Tate Museum [2023] UKSC 4
- Manchester Ship Canal Company v United Utilities Company [2024] UKSC 22
- Davies v Bridgend County Borough Council [2024] UKSC 15
- BBC July 2nd 2024 ‘Ship canal company wins water sewage appeal. Manchester Ship Canal v United Utililities
- You tube Manchester Ship Canal v United Utilities
- Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v BXB [2023] UKSC 15.
- Fearn v Trustees of Tate Museum [2023] UKSC 4
Key features
Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for Revel (available for 2023 classes)
New cases added in 2023
- Meadows v Khan [2021] UKSC 21 on the scope of duty test in Donoghue v Stevenson
- Toombes v Mitchell [2020] EWHC 3506 on the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liabilities) Act 1976
- Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4 on what constitutes a private nuisance.
- Hughes v Rattan [2022] EWCA Civ 107 and Uber and others v Aslam and others [2021] UKSC 5 on vicarious liability
Features of Revel for the 15th edition
- A digital interactive platform, Revel allows you to support your students' preparation for lectures and seminars and assess their understanding of the topics and application of the law.
- Multiple Choice Questions exercises in every chapter consolidate student learning, offering immediate feedback, with 'Apply the Law' and 'Evaluate the Law' writing tasks to support improvement.
Mini simulations, offer your students the great opportunity to give client advice based on evidence from real-life case files and prepare for their legal career
Features of Pearson eText for the 15th Edition
Extend learning beyond the classroom with Pearson eTextbook – an easy-to-use digital textbook. Enhance your understanding of tort law with Law of Tort, 15th Edition, a comprehensive eTextbook designed to support your learning.
Optimise study time
- Find it fast. Enhanced search makes it easy to find a key term or topic to study. Students can search for cases and legislation.
- Get organised and get results. Students can customise how they study and add their own notes, bookmarks, and highlights directly in their eTextbook.
- Reinforce and revise learning through MCQ exercises, 'Apply the Law' problem scenarios and mini-simulation writing tasks.
Meet students where they are
- Study on or offline. With the mobile app, you and your students can access your eTextbook anytime, anywhere.
- Listen anywhere. Learners can listen to the audio version of their eTextbook for most titles, making learning even more flexible.
- Watch and learn. Videos and animations within the eTextbook bring tricky concepts to life (available in selected titles).
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Table of contents
- Chapter 1: General principles
- Chapter 2: The tort of negligence – duty of care
- Chapter 3: Psychiatric damage
- Chapter 4: Economic loss
- Chapter 5: Liability for omissions and third parties
- Chapter 6: Liability for public authorities
- Chapter 7: Breach of duty and proof of negligence
- Chapter 8: Causation and remoteness of damage
- Chapter 9: Defences to negligence
- Chapter 10: Occupiers' Liability
- Chapter 11: Trespass to land
- Chapter 12: Nuisance
- Chapter 13: Rylands v Fletcher and liability for fire
- Chapter 14: Trespass to the person
- Chapter 15: Vicarious liability
- Chapter 16: Defamation
- Chapter 17: Privacy – Tort of misuse of private information
- Chapter 18: Remedies
Author bios
John Cooke was formerly Professor of Common Law at Liverpool John Moores University. He has over thirty years of teaching experience and has lectured, researched, and written widely in the areas of obligations, media law, and medical law.