Tort Law
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-287448-1 (ISBN)
This best-selling undergraduate textbook from renowned authors Kirsty Horsey & Erika Rackley offers a lively, accessible, and thoughtful treatment of all key tort law topics, and includes carefully chosen learning features that encourage deep and critical thinking.
Key features:
- Problem questions at the beginning of chapters set the scene, immediately putting the law in context. Outline answers and an annotated version with issues and cases to consider offer students further insights
- Author videos in every chapter enliven, explain, and enrich key topics
- 'Counterpoint' and 'pause for reflection' boxes encourage students to think critically and engage with areas of controversy or reform
- Annotated statutes and judgments explain the more difficult points of law and help students develop the invaluable skills of reading, interpreting, and analysing
- Interactive decision trees provide a visual aid to understanding key torts, and cement that knowledge through direct, step-by-step engagement
New to this edition:
- Author videos and interactive decision trees
- New and updated coverage of key legal developments, including Banks v Cadwalladr [2022] EWHC 1417 (QB) on defamation, Bloomberg LP (Appellant) v ZXC (Respondent) [2022] UKSC 5 on privacy, and Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Polmear v Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust; Purchase v Ahmed [2022] EWCA Civ 12 on psychiatric harm
Digital formats and resources:
This edition is available as an enhanced e-book, which offers an array of integrated resources to support learning. These include author videos, interactive decision trees, and support in tackling the problem question, as well as a mobile experience and convenient access, functionality tools, navigation features, and links: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
A selection of online resources is available to paperback, Law Trove, and enhanced e-book users, including:
- Outline answers to questions in the book
- Annotated links to external web resources and videos
- Downloadable annotated case judgments, statutes, and problem questions
- Guidance on answering problem and essay questions
- Additional content on elements of a claim in the tort of negligence and on product liability
- Access to the enhanced e-book's videos and interactive decision trees
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, 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.
1: Introduction
2: Introduction to the tort of negligence
3: Duty of care: basic principles
4: Special duty problems: omissions and acts of third parties
5: Special duty problems: psychiatric harm
6: Special duty problems: public bodies
7: Special duty problems: economic loss
8: Breach of duty: the standard of care
9: Causation and remoteness of damage
10: Defences to negligence
11: Occupiers' liability
12: Product liability
13: Employers' liability
14: Breach of statutory duty
15: Intentional interferences with the person
16: Invasion of privacy
17: Defamation
18: Trespass to land and nuisance
19: Actions under the rule of Rylands v Fletcher
20: Vicarious liability
21: Damages for death and personal injuries
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 1517 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Besonderes Schuldrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-287448-9 / 0192874489 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-287448-1 / 9780192874481 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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