Thomson's Delictual Liability

6. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5265-1878-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Thomson's Delictual Liability is the leading text on this complex area of law providing both students and practitioners with an indispensable guide to the Scots law of delict.

Gordon Cameron LL.B. (Hons); M.Sc. has skilfully updated the sixth edition of this text throughout, taking account of the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 and major revisions in the areas of:

- Negligence
- Privacy
- Public authorities
- Nuisance
- Vicarious liability
- Defamation

Introduction
Part I Intentional Delicts
1 Intentional wrongs in respect of persons and property
2 The economic wrongs and fraud
Part II Unintentional Delict - General Principles of Liability
3 The duty of care
4 Duty of care as a threshold device
5 Breach of a duty of care
6 Causation and related issues
Part III Delictual Liability in Specific and Economic Contexts
7 Professional liability
8 Product liability
9 Delictual liability for animals
10 Delictual liability arising from ownership or occupation of property
11 Breach of statutory duty and public law issues
12 Employers' liability and vicarious liability
13 Delict and the family
14 Delict and road traffic
15 Defamation and Malicious Publication
Part IV Damages
16 Damages

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Scottish Law, Scots Law Student and Scottish General Practice online services.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cameron, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I Intentional Delicts

1 Intentional wrongs in respect of persons and property

2 The economic wrongs and fraud

Part II Unintentional Delict - General Principles of Liability

3 The duty of care

4 Duty of care as a threshold device

5 Breach of a duty of care

6 Causation and related issues

Part III Delictual Liability in Specific and Economic Contexts

7 Professional liability

8 Product liability

9 Delictual liability for animals

10 Delictual liability arising from ownership or occupation of property

11 Breach of statutory duty and public law issues

12 Employers' liability and vicarious liability

13 Delict and the family

14 Delict and road traffic

15 Defamation and Malicious Publication

Part IV Damages

16 Damages

Über Autor(innen)

Cameron, Gordon
Gordon Cameron is a former senior lecturer at Dundee University where he worked for 30 years. In that time he ran courses on a variety of subjects, principally on the Scots and Roman laws of obligations and property. He has written on Delict generally, his concise student text has run to five editions. His principal interest is the law of neighbourhood on which he published a number of articles. He is now recovering at home in Fife

Gordon Cameron is a senior lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Dundee. He has written on delictual liability for many years including the main SULI (Scottish Universities Law Institute) Delict text and the Law Basics on Delict for W Green.