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Casebook on Torts is essential reading for students new to studying tort law at undergraduate level. It provides a selection of extracts from leading cases which clearly illustrate the essence and reasoning behind each decision made. As a case-driven subject, decisions matter not only to the individuals concerned, but also in a wider context, and each extract is accompanied by author commentary wherein the key elements of each case are identified and analyzed.
The 11th edition has been fully updated to include the following new case extracts:
On Negligence:
Smith v Chief Constable of Sussex
Gray v Thames Trains
On Causation:
Corr v IBC
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Synopsis
Richard Kidner's well-established Casebook on Torts is an essential casebook for students of tort law. The case selection for this book has been based upon the standard cases, and the extracts outline the reasoning behind the judicial decisions made. The extracts are accompanied by concise author commentary focusing the reader on the key elements and encouraging in-depth analysis of the primary materials.
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Synopsis
Richard Kidner's well-established Casebook on Torts is an essential casebook for students of tort law. The case selection for this book has been based upon the standard cases, and the extracts outline the reasoning behind the judicial decisions made. The extracts are accompanied by concise author commentary focusing the reader on the key elements and encouraging in-depth analysis of the primary materials.
Online Resource Center
Updates
Web links
About the Author
Richard Kidner is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is also the author of the OUP Statutes on Employment Law, and is a regular contributor to journals and other publications, as well as being an Arbitrator for ACAS.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Negligence: the basic principles of duty of care
3. Breach of duty: the standard of care
4. Causation and remoteness of damage
5. Special duty problems: omissions
6. Special duty problems:exercise of statutory powers
7. Special duty problems: psychiatric injury
8. Special duty problems: statements, services and economic loss
9. Special duty problems: Acts and economic loss
10. Special duty problems: contract and duty of care
11. Special duty problems:defective structures
12. Special duty problems: unborn children, wrongful life and wrongful birth
13. Defences to negligence
14. Damages for death and personal injuries
15. Vicarious liability
16. Breach of statutory duty
17. Product liability
18. Occupiers' liability
19. Nuisance
20. Liability for the escape of dangerous things
21. Animals
22. Trespass to the person
23. Trespass to land
24. Wrongful interference with goods
25. Defamation
26. Privacy and the intentional infliction of distress