Full Description
Gain the tools to understand tort law like a professional with this accessible and current text. Tort Law, 6th edition, Global Edition, by Nicholas McBride and Roderick Bagshaw, is an essential text for anyone studying law. Written by two leading scholars in the field, this book will equip you with all the information you need to succeed in your studies, combining detailed coverage of legal principles with wider literature and discussions on topics to develop your critical thinking skills. The text supports your learning through hypothetical case scenarios and guided further reading.
Now in its 6th edition, Tort Law has been extensively updated to include the latest information available on the subject, including all important case-law and legislative developments.
Such developments include material on:
The expansion of vicarious liability.
The treatment of the notion of 'defect.'
Reinvigoration of the tort.
Recognition of a tort of the malicious institution of civil proceedings.
Attempts to reform the law on the defence of illegality.
With its range of learning features and the latest available information, this text is ideal for studying tort law at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
Contents
Acknowledgements xvii Publisher's acknowledgements xviii Preface xxii Table of cases xxiv Table of statutes, statutory instruments and conventions liv
The basics 1
Trespass to the person 41
Claims in negligence 72
Duty of care: introduction 79
Duty of care: acts 105
Duty of care: omissions 185
Breach of duty 229
Causation 255
Actionability 311
Occupiers' liability 341
Product liability 362
Trespass to land 380
Private nuisance 391
Strict liability for dangerous things 442
Torts to personal property 467
Defamation 497
Invasion of privacy, harassment and abuse 550
Breach of statutory duty 598
Public nuisance 609
The economic torts 626
Abuse of power or position 674
Defences 696
Compensatory damages 723
Aggravated and exemplary damages 755
Disgorgement and licence fee damages 770
Nominal and vindicatory damages 784
Injunctions 797
Wrongful death claims 810
Other third-party claims 819
Accessory liability 824
Vicarious liability 829
Loss compensation schemes 859
Bibliography 871 Index of problems 885 Index 886
