Tort Law Concentrate

Description

Tort Law Concentrate is written and designed to help you succeed. Accurate and reliable, Concentrate guides go above and beyond, not only consolidating your learning but focusing your revision and maximising your potential.

• Learn how to improve your performance in assessments - how to focus your revision, how to answer the question, and how to pick up extra marks
• Written by experts and covering all the key topics so you can use alongside your textbook to consolidate notes and understanding, as well as approach your exams with confidence
• Clear, concise, and easy-to-use, helping you get the most out of your revision
• Full of learning features and tips to show you how best to impress your examiner
• A wide array of accompanying online resources, including interactive key cases, self-test questions, and advice on revision and exam technique: www.oup.com/lawrevision/
• Also available as an e-book with functionality and navigation features, as well as links that offer extra learning support

New to this edition

• Coverage of recent case law, including Barclays Bank v Various Claimants, WM Morrison Supermarkets v Various Claimants, Lachaux v Independent Print and Fearn v Tate Gallery Trustees
• Full updates in light of developments in the law, including the ongoing impact of the Human Rights Act 1998

About the Author(s)

Carol Brennan, Teaching Fellow, University of London

Table of Contents

1:Tort and the tort system: general overview
2:Negligence: duty of care
3:Duty of care: further issues
4:Pure economic loss and negligent misstatement
5:Psychiatric injury
6:Breach of duty: the standard of care
7:Causation in fact
8:Causation: intervening acts and remoteness
9:Employers' liability and vicarious liability
10:Product liability
11:Intentional torts
12:Nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher 13:Occupiers' liability
14:Defamation
15:Privacy
16:Defences and limitation
17:Remedies and principles of compensation

Additional Resources

Digital formats and resources
The sixth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by extensive online resources to take your learning further (www.oup.com/lawrevision/).

The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

The online resources include:
- advice on revision and exam technique from experienced examiner Nigel Foster;
- a diagnostic test to help you pinpoint areas to focus your revision on;
- interactive glossary and key cases to help you revise key terminology, facts, and principles;
- multiple choice questions to test your knowledge; and
- outline answers to questions in the book.