Casebook on Tort Law

Author:   Kirsty Horsey (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Kent) ,  Erika Rackley (Reader in Law, Professor of Law, University of Kent)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   17th Revised edition
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9780198874966


Pages:   616
Publication Date:   02 February 2024
Format:   Paperback
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All the leading cases, illuminated by Horsey & Rackley's trademark clear and lively commentary. 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. Key features: - The only text of its kind to provide a comprehensive collection of the leading tort law cases for undergraduates - Simple to navigate, pulling all key case law together into one easy-to-use volume which students can work through systematically or use to reference specific cases - Cases are accompanied by succinct author commentary highlighting the key elements of each case - Annotated cases help students understand and analyse material New to this edition: The seventeenth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent developments in the law, including Fearn and others v The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4 on private nuisance, Riley v Murray Court of Appeal [2022] EWCA Civ 1146 on defamation, and Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Polmear v Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust; Purchase v Ahmed [2022] EWCA Civ 12 on psychiatric harm.

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Author:   Kirsty Horsey (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Kent) ,  Erika Rackley (Reader in Law, Professor of Law, University of Kent)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   17th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   1.306kg
ISBN:  

9780198874966


ISBN 10:   0198874960
Pages:   616
Publication Date:   02 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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