Casebook on torts
- 9th
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
- 449p
Table of contents 1. Introduction; 2. Negligence: the basic principles of duty of care; 3. Breach of duty: the standard of care; 4. Causation and remoteness of damage; 5. Special duty problems: omissions; 6. Special duty problems: exercise of statutory powers; 7. Special duty problems: psychiatric injury; 8. Special duty problems: statements, services and economic loss; 9. Special duty problems: acts and economic loss; 10. Special duty problems: contract and duty of care; 11. Special duty problems: defective structures; 12. Special duty problems: unborn children, wrongful life and wrongful birth; 13. Defences to negligence; 14. Damages for death and personal injuries; 15. Vicarious liability; 16. Breach of statutory duty; 17. Product liability; 18. Occupiers' liability; 19. Nuisance; 20. Liability for the escape of dangerous things; 21. Animals; 22. Trespass to the person; 23. Trespass to land; 24. Wrongful interference with goods; 25. Defamation; 26. Privacy and the intentional infliction of distress