408 Pages
by Routledge

What happens if a driver carelessly crashes into another car? Or a newspaper publishes a story which makes derogatory comments about someone? Or if a resident plays loud music every night so that their neighbour cannot get any sleep? Tort law is a collection of such misbehaviours or misadventures where the law deems it appropriate to intervene with civil remedies. This new textbook addresses a... Read more

1: About Tort Law;  2: Negligence: Duty of Care;  3: Negligence: Breach;  4: Negligence: Causation;  5: Negligence: Economic Loss;  6: Negligence: Psychiatric Injury;  7: Negligence: Liability for Omissions;  8: Negligence: Public Authorities;  9: Negligence: Defences and Remedies;  10: Employers’ Liability;  11: Occupiers’ Liability;  12: Interference with Land;  13: Interference with the Person;  14: Privacy;  15: Defamation;  Index

Biography

Timon Hughes-Davies, MA DPhil (Oxford) FHEA, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.

Nathan Tamblyn, MA (Oxford), LLM PhD (Cambridge) SFHEA Barrister (Gray's Inn), is Associate Professor of the Common Law at the University of Exeter.