Tort Law

Sixth Edition

Kirsty Horsey and Erika Rackley

Allows students to think more deeply and critically about the law with carefully chosen learning features such as 'counterpoint' and 'pause for reflection' boxes
Students can understand how the law works in its practical context and begin to consider potential issues and debates with problem questions in each chapter
Take your students' learning further with the dedicated online resources, with downloadable annotated judgments and statutes, outline answers to questions in the book, annotated web links and video clips, author Twitter feed, and additional content on negligence and product liability. Students can also develop skills in answering problem questions with annotated versions in the appendix and further pointers online.

New to this Edition:

Clear coverage of four new supreme court cases: Pimlico Plumbers Ltd v Smith, Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, Armes v Nottingham County Council, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD
Online chapter on 'Employers' liability'

Tort Law

Sixth Edition

Kirsty Horsey and Erika Rackley

Description

This best-selling undergraduate textbook from leading academics Kirsty Horsey & Erika Rackley gives a comprehensive grounding in tort law and carefully chosen learning features help students to become engaged and critical thinkers.

This lively and though-provoking account allows students to understand rather than simply learn the law. The problem questions in each chapter help students to understand how the law works in its practical context and to begin to consider potential issues and debates. Carefully chosen features such as 'counterpoint' and 'pause for reflection' boxes enable students to think more deeply and critically about the law.

Online resources
The text is accompanied by extensive online resources, which include:

- Downloadable annotated judgments, statutes, and problem questions
- Outline answers to questions in the book
- Annotated web links to external web resources and videos
- Flashcard glossary of legal terms used in the book
- Additional content on elements of a claim in the tort of negligence and on product liability
- Test bank of 200 questions and answers for lecturers' use in assessing students

Tort Law

Sixth Edition

Kirsty Horsey and Erika Rackley

1. Introduction
Part I. The Tort of Negligence
2. Introduction to the tort of negligence
3. Duty of care: basic principles
4. Special duty problems: omissions and acts of third parties
5. Special duty problems: psychiatric harm
6. Special duty problems: public bodies
7. Special duty problems: economic loss
8. Breach of duty: the standard of care
9. Causation and remoteness of damage
10. Defences to negligence
Part II. Special Liability Regimes
11. Occupiers' liability
12. Product liability
13. Breach of statutory duty
Part III. The Personal Torts
14. Intentional interferences with the person
15. Invasion of privacy
16. Defamation
Part IV. The Land Torts
17. Trespass to land and nuisance
18. Actions under the rule of Rylands v Fletcher
Part V. Liability, Damages and Limitations
19. Vicarious Liability
20. Damages for death and personal injuries
Appendix: Annotated problem questions

Tort Law

Sixth Edition

Kirsty Horsey and Erika Rackley

Author Information

Kirsty Horsey, Senior Lecturer, Kent Law School, University of Kent,Erika Rackley, Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent

Kirsty Horsey is Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, teaching contract and tort law to undergraduate students across all years. Her research interests lie in the overlap of medical and family law, particularly in the area of assisted reproduction, and in public bodies' liability for negligence. In 2007, Kirsty was the joint recipient of the Barbara Morris Learning Support Prize, awarded by the University of Kent for teaching excellence.

Erika Rackley is a Professor of Law at Kent Law School. Her research interests are broadly in the field of feminism, gender and law, particularly in relation to judicial diversity. 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. Her book, Women, Judging and the Judiciary: From Difference to Diversity, won the Society of Legal Scholars Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2013. In 2015, she was appointed as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow.