Table of Contents

Part 1: General Principles of Tort Law

1    General principles

 

Part 2: The tort of negligence

2   General principles of negligence

3   Duty of care

4   Psychiatric damage

5   Economic loss

6   Liability for omissions and third parties

7   Liability of public authorities

8   Breach of duty and proof of negligence

9   Causation and remoteness of damage

10   Defences to negligence

 

Part 3: Specific areas of negligence and breach of statutory duty

11   Defective premises

12   Defective products

13   Breach of statutory duty

14   Employer’s liability

15   Medical negligence and related issues

 

Part 4: Torts based on land

16   Trespass to land

17   Nuisance

18   Rylands v Fletcher and liability for fire

 

Part 5: Miscellaneous torts

19   Trespass to the person

20   Defamation and Malicious falsehood

21   Privacy – Tort of misuse of private information

 

Part 6: Parties, defences and remedies

22   Vicarious liability

23   Limitation

24   General defences

25   Remedies

About the Author

John Cooke was formerly Professor of Common Law at Liverpool John Moores University. He has over thirty years of teaching experience and has lectured, researched and written widely in the areas of Obligations, Media Law and Medical Law.