Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort 21st ed

Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort has been a leading work on the subject since the first edition was published over 90 years ago. With the publication of this twenty-first edition it continues to be a clear, authoritative and comprehensive guide to this area of law. It is widely adopted for use by students, an invaluable resource for practitioners, and regarded in other legal systems as providing a definitive account of the English law of tort.

For this edition, the entire text has been extensively revised and the book has been restructured to make it more useful to the modern reader.

New in this edition:

• Discussion of hundreds of recent cases, including Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP, Meadows v Khan, Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police (negligence); Lloyd v Google LLC and ZXC v Bloomberg LP (privacy); Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery (private nuisance); George v Cannell (malicious falsehood); BXB v Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses (vicarious liability); Lifestyle Equities CV v Ahmed (accessorial liability); Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust (illegality); Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja (reflective loss); and Canada Square Operations Ltd v Potter (limitation)
• Freestanding chapters on negligently inflicted psychiatric injury, pure economic loss, privacy and extinction of liability, as well as a new chapter introducing the tort of negligence
• Analysis of new legislation including the Building Safety Act 2022

Trusted by generations of students and practitioners throughout the common law world, Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort remains one of the leading textbooks on the English law of tort.