Casebook on Tort Law

by Horsey, Kirsty; Rackley, Erika

• ISBN13: 9780192893659
• ISBN10: 0192893653
• Edition: 16th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-10-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The essential companion for undergraduate tort law students, providing a comprehensive portable library of leading cases in the field.

Kirsty Horsey and Erika Rackley, authors of the best-selling textbook, Tort Law, bring together an impressive range of carefully edited extracts with insightful commentary, including annotated key cases to help students identify and analyse the key elements of each case

Digital formats and resources:
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A selection of online resources accompany this text, including:
- Annotated links to external web resources and videos
- Downloadable annotated case judgments and statutes
- Guidance on answering problem and essay questions

Author Biography

Kirsty Horsey, Senior Lecturer, Kent Law School, University of Kent,Erika Rackley, Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent

Kirsty Horsey is Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, teaching contract and tort law to undergraduate students across all years. Her research interests lie in the overlap of medical and family law, particularly in the area of assisted reproduction, and in public bodies' liability for
negligence. In 2007, Kirsty was the joint recipient of the Barbara Morris Learning Support Prize, awarded by the University of Kent for teaching excellence.

Erika Rackley is a Professor of Law at Kent Law School. Her research interests are broadly in the field of feminism, gender and law, particularly in relation to judicial diversity. Her research has shaped and informed policy and public debate and has been discussed by the UK and Scottish
governments, in The Guardian, and on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour and Law in Action. Her book, Women, Judging and the Judiciary: From Difference to Diversity, won the Society of Legal Scholars Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2013. In 2015, she was appointed as a British Academy
Mid-Career Fellow.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Part I The Tort of Negligence
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
Part II Special Liability Regimes
10. Occupiers' liability
11. Product liability
12. Breach of statutory duty
Part III The Personal Torts
13. Intentional interferences with the person
14. Invasion of privacy
15. Defamation
Part IV The Land Torts
16. Trespass to land and nuisance
17. Actions under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher
Part V Liability, Damages and Limitations
18. Vicarious liability
19. Damages for death and personal injuries