Essential resource to study Tort Law in one leading text Elliott & Quinn's Tort Law, 13th edition, comprehensively covers the fundamental legal issues with clarity and lots of practical examples to support your understanding of tort law. This textbook provides insight into the key cases, prompting you to practice and apply their principles to exam-style questions and develop your own views on the effectiveness of current laws. With an array of useful study features and examples, this book has the tools you need to understand how the law operates in the real world. New and updated features of this title O Refreshed with latest case law to extend key case precedents to recent case law including URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21 and Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1 O More explanatory text for key topics such as privacy O A new diagram on negligence to explain the big picture of this key area of tort and align with the chapters to signpost the full process of establishing liability and remediesI O IRAC, a model for teaching problem scenario questions in law, is now included. This means covering an issue, rule, application, and conclusion process when answering questions O Apply the Law problem scenarios provide real world situations for students to apply legal concepts
1. Introduction to Tort Law
2. Negligence: Elements and duty of care
3. Negligence: Breach of the duty of care
4. Negligence: Causation of damage
5. Negligence: Psychiatric injury
6. Negligence: Economic loss
7. Negligence: Public bodies
8. Negligence: Defences
9. Employers' liability
10. Occupiers' liability
11. Product liability
12. Nuisance
13, Trespass to land and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher
14. Defamation
15. Privacy
16. Trespass to the person
17. Breach of statutory duty
18. Remedies in tort
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