Casebook on Tort Law

17. Revised Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-887496-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 616 Seiten, Format (B × H): 248 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 1330 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horsey, Kirsty

Rackley, Erika

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Schuldrecht Haftpflichtrecht, Deliktsrecht, Produkthaftungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsty Horsey is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent, and has taught tort law to undergraduate students across all years for over 20 years. Her research interests lie in the overlap of medical, family and tort law. She has written widely on the regulation of assisted reproduction and in particular surrogacy, was Senior Research Associate at London Women's Clinic from September 2021 - August 2023, and is the editor of a number of related edited collections. She is co-author (with Erika Rackley) of Casebook on Tort Law (17th edn, OUP, 2024) and ort Law (8th edn, OUP, 2023). She tweets at @khorsey.

Erika Rackley is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent. Her research and teaching interests span torts, judicial studies, law and gender, criminal law and legal history. She has written extensively on these topics. 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.