Tort Law in the United Kingdom,
2nd edition

By Nicholas McBride & Roderick Bagshaw
July 2005
Financial Times / Pearson Education Limited
ISBN: 027368678X
864 pages, Illustrated
$97.50 Paper Original

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This book provides readers with an extremely lucid, intelligent and lively overview of the entire British law of tort. The rules and principles making up this area of the law are clearly set out and brought to life by considering how they apply in concrete situations.

At the same time, key issues in the law of tort (such as, among many others, the scope of public authority liability in negligence, the effect of the law of defamation on freedom of speech, the scope and rationale of vicarious liability, and the scope of liability under the Consumer Protection Act 1987) are critically discussed in great detail.

Contents
Part I: THE PROVINCE OF TORT LAW
1. What Is A Tort?
2. An Overview of Tort Law
3. Some Common Misconceptions About Tort Law
Part II: TORTS
A. Negligence Introduction
4. Established Duty Situations: The Legacy of Donoghue v. Stevenson
5. Established Duty Situations: The Principle in Hedley Byrne and Associated Principles
6. Established Duty Situations: Situations Giving Rise to a Duty to Rescue
7. Established Duty Situations: Status-Based Duty Situations
8. The Caparo Test
9. Breach of Duty
B. Torts Involving the Infliction of Certain Kinds of Harm Introduction
10. Assault and Battery
11. False Imprisonment
12. Libel and Slander
13. The Tort in Wilkinson v. Downton
14. Harassment
15. Invasion of Privacy
16. Conversion
17. Trespass to Goods
18. Trespass to Land
19. Private Nuisance
20. Inducing a Breach of Contract
C. Torts Involving the Intentional Infliction of Harm Introduction
21. Using Unlawful Means to Harm Another
22. The Tort in Quinn v. Leathem
D. Torts Involving the Deception of Others Introduction
23. Deceit
24. Malicious Falsehood
25. Passing Off
E. Torts Involving the Misuse of Power Introduction
26. Malicious Prosecution
27. Misfeasance in Public Office
F. Torts Involving the Breach of A Statutory Duty
28. Basic Principles
29. Examples of Such Torts
Part III: REMEDIES
A. Compensatory Damages: Basic Principles Introduction
30. Limits on the Right to Sue
31. Causation
32. Actionability
33. Quantification of Loss
34. Reduction in Liability
B. Compensatory Damages: Third Parties Introduction
35. Liability to Third Parties
36. Vicarious Liability
C. Non-Compensatory Damages Introduction
37. Nominal Damages
38. Aggravated Damages
39. Exemplary Damages
40. Restitutionary Damages
41. Damages for Conversion
D. Remedies Designed to Prevent Someone Committing a Tort
42. Injunction
43. Specific Restitution of Goods
Part IV: ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF COMPENSATION Introduction
44. The Human Rights Act 1998
45. Liability for Dangerous Things
46. The Consumer Protection Act 1987
47. Public Nuisance
48. The Competition Act 1998
49. Loss Compensation Schemes

Features
" Comprehensive coverage of the whole of tort law.
" Detailed discussion of the facts and decisions in over 300 key cases.
" Exhaustive introduction to, and critique of, academic views in this area.
" Fully up-to-date - and stays up-to-date by providing readers with acclaimed companion website on recent developments in tort law.


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