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Kidner's Casebook on Torts Kirsty Horsey (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent)

Kidner's Casebook on Torts By Kirsty Horsey (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent)

Summary

The essential companion for undergraduate tort law students, providing a comprehensive portable library of leading tort cases. Horsey & Rackley bring together a range of carefully edited extracts, combined with insightful commentary, questions, and annotated cases to help students identify and analyse the key elements of a case.

Kidner's Casebook on Torts Summary

Kidner's Casebook on Torts by Kirsty Horsey (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent)

Kidner's Casebook on Torts is the essential companion for undergraduate tort law students, providing a comprehensive portable library of leading cases in the field. Kirsty Horsey and Ericka Rackley, authors of the best-selling tort law textbook, combine their talents again to update Kidner's popular casebook; bringing together an impressive range of carefully edited extracts and combining insightful commentary with questions and annotated cases to help your students identify and analyse the key elements of each case. Digital formats and resources The fifteenth 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/ebooks - The text is supported by online resources which provide a comprehensive suite of resources, including downloadable annotated cases, flashcard glossary, and web links and video clips of current items.

About Kirsty Horsey (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent)

Kirsty Horsey is Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, teaching contract and tort law to undergraduate students across all years. Her research interests lie in the overlap of medical and family law, particularly in the area of assisted reproduction, and in public bodies' liability for negligence. In 2007, Kirsty was the joint recipient of the Barbara Morris Learning Support Prize, awarded by the University of Kent for teaching excellence. Erika Rackley is a Professor of Law at Kent Law School. Her research interests are broadly in the field of feminism, gender and law, particularly in relation to judicial diversity. Her research has shaped and informed policy and public debate and has been discussed by the UK and Scottish governments, in The Guardian, and on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour and Law in Action. Her book, Women, Judging and the Judiciary: From Difference to Diversity, won the Society of Legal Scholars Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2013. In 2015, she was appointed as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction Part I. The Tort of Negligence 2: Duty of care: basic principles 3: Special duty problems: omissions and acts of third parties 4: Special duty problems: psychiatric harm 5: Special duty problems: public bodies 6: Special duty problems: economic loss 7: Breach of duty: the standard of care 8: Causation and remoteness of damage 9: Defences to negligence Part II. Special Liability Regimes 10: Occupiers' liability 11: Product liability 12: Breach of statutory duty Part III. The Personal Torts 13: Intentional interferences with the person 14: Invasion of privacy 15: Defamation Part IV. The Land Torts 16: Trespass to land and nuisance 17: Actions under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher Part V. Liability, Damages and Limitations 18: Vicarious liability 19: Damages for death and personal injuries

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GOR010747416
9780198830887
0198830882
Kidner's Casebook on Torts by Kirsty Horsey (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent)
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Oxford University Press
20190808
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