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This best-selling undergraduate textbook from renowned authors Kirsty Horsey and Erika Rackley offers a lively, accessible and thoughtful treatment of all key topics taught on tort law courses, and includes carefully chosen learning features to help students become engaged and criticalthinkers.The problem questions in each chapter help students to understand how the law works in its practical context. Carefully chosen features such as 'counterpoint' and 'pause for reflection' boxes enable students to think more deeply and critically about the law.Digital formats and resources:The seventh edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooksA selection of online resources accompany this text, including:- Outline answers to questions in the book- Annotated links to external web resources and videos- Downloadable annotated case judgments, statutes, and problem questions- Guidance on answering problem and essay questions- Additional content on elements of a claim in the tort of negligence and on product liability
Students will be expected to consult a range of law journals via Lexis Library and selected eJournals from WestLaw with a view to developing appropriate legal research skills and to access important supplementary readings in preparation for assessments. Examples of journals include:
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Chapter 2: Introduction to the tort of negligence
Chapter 3: Duty of care: basic principles
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Caparo Industries v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605 (HL)
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562
Anns v Merton [1978] AC 728 (HL)
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Chapter 4: Omissions and acts of third parties (E)
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Essential Cases
Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co [1970] AC 1004 (HL)
Smith v Littlewoods [1987] 1 AC 241 (HL)
Essential Article
Recommended Reading
Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2015] UKSC 2
Komorowski, J. (2013) ‘Donoghue v Stevenson: myths and reality’, Juridical Review, 3: 451-467.
Read Chapter 6 (Public bodies) from the textbook
Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1989] AC 53 (HL)
Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [2014] EWCA Civ 15
Recommended Reading
Osman v UK [1999] ECtHR
Stovin v Wise [1996] AC 923 (HL)
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Chapter 5: Psychiatric harm
Chapter 7: Economic loss
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Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1992] AC 310 (HL)
Hedley Bryne v Heller [1963] UKHL 4
Page v Smith [1996] AC 155 (HL)
Spartan Steel v Martin & Co [1973] 1 QB 27 (CA)
Recommended Reading
McLoughlin v O’Brian [1982] 1 AC 410 (HL)
Murphy v Brentwood [1991] 1 AC 398 (HL)
White v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1999] 2 AC 455
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Chapter 8: Breach of duty (skip pages 221-230)
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Bolton v Stone [1951] AC 850
Nettleship v Weston [1971] 2 QB 691
Recommended Reading
Mansfield v Weetabix [1998] 1 WLR 1263 (CA)
Roberts v Ramsbottom [1980] 1 WLR 823 (QBD)
Further Reading
Nolan, D. (2013) ‘Varying the Standard of Care in Negligence’, Cambridge Law Journal, 72: 651–688.
Read pages 221-230 in the textbook
Bolam v Friern Hospital [1957] AC 850
Bolitho v City and Hackney Health [1998] AC 232 (HL)
Montgomery v Lanarkshire [2015] UKSC 11
Heywood, R. (2015) ‘R.I.P. Sidaway: Patient-oriented disclosure – a standard worth waiting for?’, Medical Law Review, 23(3): 455-466. [note: this may be listed as 'Commentary-Med Law Rev (2015) 23 (3):455']
Recommended Reading
Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] AC 871
Further Reading
Read Chapter 9 (Causation) of the textbook
Barnett v Chelsea [1969] 1 QB 428
Overseas Tankship v Morts (Wagon Mound 1) [1961] AC 388 (PC)
Recommended Reading
Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services [2002] UKHL 22
Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority [1988] 1 AC 1074 (HL)
Further Reading
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Chapter 10: Defences to negligence
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Jackson v Murray [2015] UKSC 5
Morris v Murray [1991] 2 QB 6 (CA)
Recommended Reading
Gray v Thames Trains [2009] UKHL 33
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Chapter 18: Trespass to land and nuisance
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Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13
Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] AC 655 (HL)
St Helens Smelting Co v Tipping [1865] 11 HLC 642
Sturges v Bridgman (1879) LR 11 Ch D 852 (CA)
Recommended Reading
Fearn v Tate Modern [2020] EWCA Civ 104
Kennaway v Thompson [1981] QB 88 (CA)
Network Rail v Williams [2018] EWCA Civ 1514
Robinson v Kilvert (1889) LR 41 Ch D 88 (CA)
Further Reading
Steel, S. (2019) ‘The gist of private nuisance’, Law Quarterly Review, 135(Apr): 192-195.
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Chapter 19: Rylands v Fletcher
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Cambridge Water v Eastern Counties Leather plc [1994] 2 AC 264 (HL)
Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 (HL)
Transco v Stockport MBC [2003] UKHL 61
Further Reading
Bagshaw, R. (2004) ‘Rylands confined’ Law Quarterly Review 120(Jul): 388-392.
Kumaralingam, A. (2004) ‘Rylands lives’, Cambridge Law Journal, 63(2): 273-276.
Read Chapter 17 (Defamation) from the textbook
Joseph v Spiller [2010] UKSC 53
Lachaux v Independent [2019] UKSC 27
Monroe v Hopkins [2017] EWHC 433 (QB)
Reynolds v Times Newspapers [2001] 2 AC 127 (HL)
Recommended Reading
BrewDog v Frank [2020] EWHC 1276 (QB)
British Chiropractic v Singh [2010] EWCA Civ 350
Byrne v Deane [1937] 1 KB 818 (CA) (R) Hulton & Co v Jones [1910] AC 20 (HL)
Flood v Times [2012] UKSC 11
Hulton & Co v Jones [1910] AC 20 (HL)
Further Reading
Bernal, P. (2014) ‘A defence of responsible Tweeting’, Communications Law, 19(1): 12-19.
Descheemaeker, E. (2015) ‘Mapping Defamation Defences’, Modern Law Review, 78: 641.
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Chapter 12: Product liability, pgs. 345-354
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Grant v. Australian Knitting [1936] AC 85 (PC)
Handford, P. (2013) ‘The snail's Antipodean adventures’, Juridical Review, 3:315-355.
Recommended Reading
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 (HL)
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Chapter 12: Product liability, pgs. 354-376
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A and others v National Blood Authority [2001] 3 All ER 289 (QBD)
Recommended Reading
Bogle and others v McDonalds [2002] EWHC 490 (QB)
Richardson v LRC Products (2000) 59 BMLR 185 (R)