The Law of Tort (Butterworths Common Law Series)

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Description
The common law is justifiably seen as a jewel in the crown of English law. The common law has travelled far afield to many other countries where it has been adopted and developed by the local courts. No longer the sole preserve of the judges in London (or Edinburgh and Cardiff), its durability and richness has been due in no small way to the diversity of approach that exists between the common law countries throughout the world. Many of the great judges in England, such as Coke, Mansfield, Blackburn, Atkin, Devlin, Reid and Denning, and those from overseas such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo and Owen Dixon, have been masters of the common law. As we enter the new Millennium, the common law continues to influence the development of law elsewhere. It will remain a major export, but now also an import, of this country. Butterworths Common Law Series conceives of the common law in broad terms, providing analyses of the principles informing the frameworks of the law derived from judicial decisions and legislation. The Series seeks to provide authoritative accounts of the common law for legal practitioners, judges and academics. While providing a clear and authoritative exposition of the existing law, the Series also aims to identify and examine potential developments in the common law drawing on important and significant jurisprudence from other common law jurisdictions. Judges have increasingly looked to academic works for guidance on the accepted view of the law but also when contemplating a reformulation or change of direction in the law. The Series may, it is hoped, provide some assistance such that the law is less likely to be left undeveloped 'marching... in the rear limping a little', to quote a famous judicial aphorism (Mount Isa Mines v Pusey (1970) per Windeyer J).
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Contents
Chapter 1.    The Nature of Tortious Liability
Chapter 2.    Capacity to Commit a Tort and to Sue
Chapter 3.    Vicarious Liability
Chapter 4.    Joint and Several Liability in Tort
Chapter 5.    General Defences
Chapter 6.    Damages
Chapter 7.    Damages for Death
Chapter 8.    Injunctions and Other Remedies
Chapter 9.    Intentional Interference with the Person
Chapter 10.  Trespass to Land
Chapter 11.  Wrongful Interference with Goods
Chapter 12.  Duty of Care
Chapter 13.  Negligence: Breach of Duty
Chapter 14.  Negligence: Causation and Damage
Chapter 15.  Breach of Statutory Duty
Chapter 16.  Professional Liability
Chapter 17.  Government Liability
Chapter 18.  Dangerous Premises
Chapter 19.  Product Liability
Chapter 20.  Liability of Employers
Chapter 21.  Torts Involving Animals
Chapter 22.  Nuisance
Chapter 23.  Rylands v Fletcher and Fire
Chapter 24.  Privacy
Chapter 25.  The Law of Defamation - Part I
Chapter 26.  The Law of Defamation - Part II
Chapter 27.  Malicious Falsehood
Chapter 28.  Deceit and Misrepresentation
Chapter 29.  The Economic Torts
Chapter 30.  Malicious Prosecution and Abuse of Process
Index
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Author Details
Series editor - Andrew Grubb, MA (Cantab), LLD (Lond), FMedSci Senior Immigration Judge, Asylum and Immigration Tribunal; Visiting Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
General editor - Ken Oliphant, BA (Oxon), BCL City Solicitors Educational Trust Reader in Tort, University of Bristol
Contributors - Roderick Bagshaw,  MA (Oxon), BCL Fellow in Law, Magdalen College, Oxford, David Burnet BA (Oxon), LLM Wales Lecturer, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, Paula Giliker MA (Oxon), BCL, PhD Reader in Law, University of Bristol, Vivienne Harpwood LLB, Barrister Professor, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, Steve Hedley MA (Oxon), LLB (Cantab), BSc (Open), Barrister Professor of Law, University College, Cork, David Howarth MA (Cantab), LLM (Yale), MPhil (Yale) Member of Parliament, House of Commons; Fellow of Clare College,Cambridge, Mark Lunney BA, LLB (Qld) LLM (Cantab), Solicitor, Supreme Court of Queensland and Supreme Court of England &c Wales Associate Professor of Law, University of New England, Paul Mitchell BA (Oxon), DPhil Reader in Law, King's College London, Alastair Mullis LLB (Lond), LLM (Cantab) Professor of Law, University of East Anglia, Donal Nolan MA (Oxon), BCL Fellow in Law, Worcester College, Oxford
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