En savoir plus
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. It is also the perfect companion to
Tort Law eighth edition (Horsey & Rackley 2023).
Table des matières
- 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
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
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. It is also the perfect companion to Tort Law eighth edition (Horsey & Rackley 2023).
