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McBride Nicholas J

Tort law - 2nd - Bangalore Pearson Education Ltd. 2005 - 707p lviii

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
The McBride and Bagshaw Website
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes, Statutory Instruments and Conventions
PART I. THE PROVINCE OF TORT LAW
1. What is a Tort?
2. An Overview of Tort Law
3. Tort Law and its Critics
PART II. TORTS
NEGLIGENCE
4. Established Duty Situations I: The Legacy of Donoghue v Stevenson
5. Established Duty Situations II: The Principle in Hedley Byrne and
Associated Principles
6. Established Duty Situations III: Situations Giving Rise to a Duty
to Act
7. Established Duty Situations IV: Statuses Giving Rise to a Duty
to Act
8. The Caparo Test
9. Breach of Duty
TORTS INVOLVING THE INFLICTION OF CERTAIN KINDS
OF HARM
10. Assault and Battery
11 . False Imprisonment
12. Defamation
13. Harassment
14. Invasion of Privacy
15. Conversion
16. Trespass to Goods
17. Trespass to Land
18. Private Nuisance
19. Inducing a Breach of Contract
TORTS INVOLVING THE INTENTIONAL INFLICTION
OF HARM
20. Using Unlawful Means to Harm Another
21. The Tort in Quinn v Leathem
Contents
TORTS INVOLVING THE DECEPTION OF OTHERS
22. Deceit
23. Malicious Falsehood
24. Passing Off
TORTS INVOLVING THE MISUSE OF POWER
25. Malicious Prosecution and Analogous Torts
26. Misfeasance in Public Office
TORTS INVOLVING THE BREACH OF A STATUTORY DUTY
OWED TO ANOTHER
27. Basic Principles
28. Some Examples
PART III. REMEDIES
COMPENSATORY DAMAGES: BASIC PRINCIPLES
29. Limits on the Right to Sue
30. Causation
31. Actionability
32. Quantification of Loss
33. Reduction in Liability
COMPENSATORY DAMAGES: THIRD PARTIES
34. Liability to Third Parties
35. Vicarious Liability
NON-COMPENSATORY DAMAGES
36. Nominal Damages
37. Aggravated Damages
38. Exemplary Damages
39. Restitutionary Damages
40. Damages for Conversion
REMEDIES DESIGNED TO PREVENT SOMEONE COMMITTINC
A TORT
41. Injunction
42. Specific Restitution of Goods
PART IV. ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF COMPENSATl
INTRODUCTION
43. The Human Rights Act 1998
44. Liability for Dangerous Things
45. The Consumer Protection Act 1987
46. Public Nuisance
47. Loss Compensation Schemes
Bibliography
Index

ISBN: 9780273686781

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Tort Law

Dewey Class. No.: 346.030000 / MCB-2