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Vicarious Liability
The scope of vicarious liability has significantly expanded since its original conception. Today employers are being found liable for actions of employees that they did not …
Tort Law Defences
The law of torts recognises many defences to liability. While some of these defences have been explored in detail, scant attention has been given to the theoretical foundations of …
Tort Law and Human Rights
This is a completely revised and expanded second edition, building on the first edition with two principal aims: to elucidate the role that domestic tort principles play in …
The Law of Private Nuisance
It is said that a nuisance is an interference with the use and enjoyment of land. This definition is typically unhelpful. While a nuisance must fit this account, it is plain that …
The Law of Misstatements
2013 was the 50th anniversary of the House of Lords’ landmark decision in Hedley Byrne v Heller. This international collection of essays brings together leading experts from five …
The Evolution from Strict Liability to Fault in the Law of Torts
Gradually, the law of tort has shifted away from a strict-liability approach to one where fault predominates. This book charts important case law documenting this shift. It seeks …
The Europeanisation of English Tort Law
Tort law is often regarded as the clearest example of traditional common law reasoning. Yet, in the past 40 years, the common law of England and Wales has been subject to European …
The Duty of Care in Negligence
This book aims to provide a detailed analysis and overview of the duty of care enquiry, drawing on both academic analyses and judicial experience in leading common law systems. A …
Rethinking Medical Negligence
This important monograph looks at the question of patient autonomy, and its relationship to the tort of negligence. It tracks the historical development of that autonomy and its …
Reconceptualising Strict Liability for the Tort of Another
This book adopts a novel approach to resolving the present difficulties experienced by the courts in imposing strict liability for the tort of another. It looks beyond the …
Private Law in the 21st Century
This book brings together a wide range of contributors from across the common law world to identify and debate the principal moral and systemic challenges facing private law in the …
Private Law and Power
The aim of this edited collection of essays is to examine the relationship between private law and power – both the public power of the state and the ‘private’ power of …