Full Description
The 2nd edition of Green and Gardner's Tort Law textbook provides students with a clear overview of tort law with focus and precision. It includes clear explanations of core legal principles and recent legal developments with lively discussions of key academic perspectives. Extended problem questions, flowcharts and relatable examples help students to understand how law works in a practical context and prepares them for success in assignments and exams. Engaging pedagogical features, such as 'Viewpoint' and 'Making Connections', encourage students to develop their own critical thinking practice and appreciate how tort law interacts with other areas of the core law curriculum.
Practical and student-friendly with engaging visual features, Tort Law is an essential companion for all undergraduate tort law modules, for students of all abilities.
Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsbury.pub/tort-law-2e. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
Contents
1. Introduction
Part 1: The Tort of Negligence
2. Duty of Care
3. Pure Economic Loss
4. Psychiatric Injury
5. Breach of Duty
6. Causation
7. Remoteness
Part 2: Torts Relating to Land and Goods
8. Occupiers' Liability
9. Product Liability
10. Nuisance and the Rule in Rylands v Fletcher
Part 3: Intentional Torts
11. The Economic Torts
12. Intentional Torts against the Person
Part 4: Defamation and Privacy
13. Defamation
14. Privacy and Breach of Confidence
Part 5: General Matters
15. Vicarious Liability
16. Defences
17. Damages
