Subjects:

Tort Law, External LLB Titles

Contents:

I Setting the scene

1. Introduction

II The tort of negligence

2. Establishing liability in principle

3. Other elements of liability

4. An American perspective on negligence

III Special forms of negligence

5. Liability of occupiers and builders

6. Breach of statutory duty

7. Liability of statutory bodies

IV Interference with the person

8. Intentional interference

9. Malicious prosecution

V Land and chattels and intentional interference with economic interests

10. Interference with chattels

11. Land

12. Lesser interferences with land nuisance

13. Deceit

14. The economic torts

VI Stricter forms of liability

15. The rule of Rylands v Fletcher

16. Liability for animals

17. Employer's liability

18. Vicarious liability

19. Product liability

VII Protection of human dignity (in private law)

20. Defamation and injurious falsehood

21. Privacy

22. Defamation and privacy: the American perspective

VIII: Defences and remedies

23. Defences

24. Damages

25. Other remedies and multiple liabilities

Index

Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and well-established textbook. It provides a general overview of the law and full discussion of the academic debates on all major topics for students and their lecturers, highlighting the relationship between the common law, legislation, and judicial policy.

In addition, the authors provide a variety of comparative and economic perspectives upon the law of tort and its likely development, which will also be of interest to practitioners and judges. In this edition the authors have broken the material down into a greater number of smaller chapters, and restructured the book to bring together closely related topics, mapping to undergraduate law courses.

Key recent developments, including the impact of the Human Rights Act, are given clear coverage. Throughout the book the relationship between the common law, legislation, and judicial policy is a key theme, and economic and comparative analysis of the cases and issues is widely used.

New to this edition:-

• In this edition the authors have broken the material down into a greater number of smaller chapters, and restructured the book to bring together closely related topics, mapping closely to undergraduate law courses.
• Eight original chapters have become 8 Parts, with a total of 25 chapters within these
• Key recent developments, including the impact of the Human Rights Act, are given clear coverage Includes a new section on liability for breach of obligations arising under European Community Law