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.
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