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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
List of contents
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
About the author
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
Summary
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
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Foreword
Delictual Liability is a highly respected account of the principles of delict in Scots law and is the standard introductory textbook on the subject.
