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Table of contents:
Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and well-established textbook, reaching its sixth edition in the space of twenty years. It provides a general overview of the law and full discussion of the academic debates on all major topics, highlighting the relationship between the common law, legislation, and judicial policy as well as the new European influences emanating from Luxembourg and Strasbourg. In addition, the authors provide a variety of comparative and economic perspectives on the law of tort and its likely development, always placing the subject in its socio-economic context thus giving students a deeper and richer understanding of tort law. Written by leading authorities on tort law, this detailed book offers teachers a wide range of topics to cover while offering students a text which is both descriptive and reflective of this branch of law. A bibliography and rich footnotes provide interested readers with further references.
Contents:
I SETTING THE SCENE
- 1
Introduction
- II THE TORT OF NEGLIGENCE
- 2
Establishing liability in principle
- 3
Other elements of liability
- 4
An American perspective on negligence
- III SPECIAL FORMS OF NEGLIGENCE
- 5
Liability of occupiers and builders
- 6
Breach of statutory duty
- 7
Liability of statutory bodies
- IV INTERFERENCE WITH THE PERSON
- 8
Intentional interference
- 9
Malicious prosecution
- V LAND AND CHATTELS AND INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE WITH ECONOMIC INTERESTS
- 10
Interference with chattels
- 11
Land
- 12
Lesser interferences with land nuisance
- 13
Deceit
- 14
The economic torts
- VI STRICTER FORMS OF LIABILITY
- 15
The rule of Rylands v Fletcher
- 16
Liability for animals
- 17
Employer's liability
- 18
Vicarious liability
- 19
Product liability
- VII PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY (IN PRIVATE LAW)
- 20
Defamation and injurious falsehood
- 21
Privacy
- 22
Defamation and privacy: the American perspective
- VIII: DEFENCES AND REMEDIES
- 23
Defences
- 24
Damages
- 25
Other remedies and multiple liabilities
- Index
Brief Description:
Provides a general overview of the law and a discussion of the academic debates on major topics for students and their lecturers, highlighting the relationship between the common law, legislation, and judicial policy. This book also provides a variety of comparative and economic perspectives upon the law of tort and its likely development.
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