Tort Law, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (July 5, 2024) © 2024

  • Nicholas J McBride Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Roderick Bagshaw Magdalen College, Oxford

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For students studying tort law at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

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.

Extensively updated, this edition covers all important case-law and legislative developments, including:

  • detailed accounts of significant UK Supreme Court decisions on the law of negligence (Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, N v Poole BC, HXA v Surrey CC and Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust)
  • the law of private nuisance (Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery)
  • the law on vicarious liability (Various Claimants v Barclays Bank, Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets, BXB v Barry Congregation)
  • discussions of statutory developments around building safety and digital assets.

Table of contents

Brief contents

Table of cases

Table of statutes, statutory instruments and conventions

  1. Tort law in a nutshell
  2. Trespass to the personl
  3. Claims in negligence
  4. Duty of care (1) – introduction
  5. Duty of care (2) – physical injury cases
  6. Duty of care (3) – psychiatric illness cases
  7. Duty of care (4) – property damage cases
  8. Duty of care (5) – pure economic loss cases
  9. Duty of care (6) – other cases
  10. Breach of duty
  11. Causation (1) – the standard tests
  12. Causation (2) – exceptions to the standard tests
  13. Actionability
  14. Occupiers' liability
  15. Product and building liability
  16. Property torts (1) – trespass to land
  17. Property torts (2) – private nuisance
  18. Liability for dangerous things
  19. Property torts (3) – torts to personal property
  20. Defamation
  21. Invasion of privacy
  22. Abusive torts
  23. Economic torts
  24. Criminal torts
  25. Remedies (1) – defences
  26. Remedies (2) – compensatory damages
  27. Remedies (3) – non-compensatory damages
  28. Remedies (4) – injunctions
  29. Remedies (5) – who can sue?
  30. 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

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