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Casebook on Tort Law 17th Revised edition

Paperback by Horsey, Kirsty (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Kent); Rackley, Erika (Reader in Law, Professor of Law, University of Kent)

Casebook on Tort Law

£45.99

ISBN:
9780198874966
Publication Date:
2 Feb 2024
Edition/language:
17th Revised edition / English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
616 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 4 - 6 Aug 2026

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Casebook on Tort Law

Description

All the leading cases, illuminated by Horsey & Rackley's trademark clear and lively commentary. The essential companion for undergraduate tort law students, providing a comprehensive portable library of leading tort cases. Horsey & Rackley bring together a range of carefully edited extracts, combined with insightful commentary and annotated cases to help students identify and analyse the key elements. Key features: - The only text of its kind to provide a comprehensive collection of the leading tort law cases for undergraduates - Simple to navigate, pulling all key case law together into one easy-to-use volume which students can work through systematically or use to reference specific cases - Cases are accompanied by succinct author commentary highlighting the key elements of each case - Annotated cases help students understand and analyse material New to this edition: The seventeenth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent developments in the law, including Fearn and others v The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4 on private nuisance, Riley v Murray Court of Appeal [2022] EWCA Civ 1146 on defamation, and Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Polmear v Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust; Purchase v Ahmed [2022] EWCA Civ 12 on psychiatric harm.

Contents

1: Introduction 2: Duty of care: basic principles 3: Special duty problems: omissions and acts of third parties 4: Special duty problems: psychiatric harm 5: Special duty problems: public bodies 6: Special duty problems: economic loss 7: Breach of duty: the standard of care 8: Causation and remoteness of damage 9: Defences to negligence 10: Occupiers' liability 11: Product liability 12: Breach of statutory duty 13: Intentional interferences with the person 14: Invasion of privacy 15: Defamation 16: Trespass to land and nuisance 17: Actions under Rylands v Fletcher 18: Vicarious liability 19: Damages for death and personal injuries

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