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Tort Law Directions
by Brennan, Carol; Bermingham, VeraEdition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2020-09-09
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Author Biography
Carol Brennan, Teaching Fellow on the Undergraduate Laws Programme, University of London,Vera Bermingham, Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
Table of Contents
1. Law and system
2. Negligence: duty of care
3. Negligence: breach of duty
4. Negligence: causation
5. Negligence: duty of care problem areas
6. Defences to negligence
7. Negligence: occupiers' liability
8. Employers' liability and non-delegable duties
9. Vicarious liability
10. Product liability
11. Trespass to the person and to land
12. Nuisance
13. Rylands v Fletcher
14. Elements of defamation
15. Defences to defamation
16. Privacy and misuse of private information
17. Remedies and limitation
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