Classification: Damages, Personal Injury And Tort; 

Book Description

Clerk & Lindsell on Torts is the definitive work in this area. It supplies the most authoritative guidance available on all aspects of the law of tort and is widely referred to and cited by practitioners and the judiciary. Clerk & Lindsell on Torts:

* Covers all areas of tort, including negligence, defamation, nuisance and trespass, and statutory torts

* Deals with common law, statutory, individual and commercial torts individually, chapter by chapter

* Offers unequalled explanation of the general principles and shows how these apply in different situations through detailed analysis of case law

* Gives detailed guidance on remedies, such as damages and injunctions

* Examines possible defences and arguments that can be used

* Covers the relevant human rights issues

* Considers Commonwealth law, making the work relevant throughout the common law world

* Keeps you fully up to date with regular supplements

Contents

- Principles of Liability in Tort
- Causation in Tort: General Principles
- General Defences
- Joint Liability and Contribution
- Capacity and Parties
- Vicarious Liability
- Foreign Torts
- Negligence
- Breach of Statutory Duty
- Professional Liability
- Product Liability and Consumer Protection
- Occupiers' Liability and Defective Premises
- Employers' Liability
- Public Service Liability
- Trespass to the Person
- Malicious Prosecution
- Wrongful Interference with Goods
- Deceit
- Trespass to Land and Dispossession
- Nuisance
- Animals
- Defamation
- Malicious Falsehood
- Economic Torts
- Statutory Intellectual Property Rights
- Passing Off
- Breach of Confidence and Privacy
- Damages
- Injunctions
- Self-Help
- Discharge of Torts
- Limitation.