Unlocking Torts by Chris Turner

By Chris Turner

Tort legislations is a center section of each legislations measure in England and Wales. Unlocking Torts will make sure you clutch the most suggestions very easily. This ebook explains in targeted, but straight forward, terms:

  • Negligence and negligence similar torts together with occupiers' legal responsibility and employers' liability
  • Land established torts similar to trespass, nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher
  • Liability for animals
  • Torts in terms of goods
  • Trespass to the person
  • Defamation and different torts in relation to reputation
  • Economic torts, breach of a statutory accountability, vicarious legal responsibility, defences and remedies

The fourth version is totally modern with the most important contemporary situations together with significant advancements in vicarious legal responsibility. it is also alterations after the Defamation Act 2013.

The Unlocking the Law sequence is designed in particular to make the legislations available. every one bankruptcy opens with an inventory of goals and ambitions, comprises actions equivalent to quickly quizzes and self-test questions, key evidence charts to consolidate your wisdom, and diagrams to help studying. situations and judgments are prominently displayed, as are basic resource quotations. Summaries support money your realizing of every bankruptcy, there's a thesaurus of felony terminology. New good points comprise challenge questions with suggestions on answering, in addition to essay questions and solution plans, plus circumstances and fabrics workouts. All titles within the sequence stick with an analogous formulation and comprise an analogous beneficial properties so scholars can circulate simply from one topic to a different. The sequence covers the entire center topics required by means of the Bar Council and the legislations Society for access onto specialist skills in addition to well known choice devices.

The sequence web site www.unlockingthelaw.co.uk presents loose assets similar to a number of selection questions, key questions and solutions, revision mp3s and circumstances and fabrics exercises.

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269 Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c 36)........ 377 xxxv Guard Dogs Act 1975 (c 50)........... 287, 291, 293 Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 (42 Geo 3) ..................................................... 423 Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974 (c 37)........................ 411, 424, 445 s 2(1) .......................................................... 443 s 7 ............................................................... 443 s 9 ...............................................................

13 Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20) ..................................... 14, 326, 334, 341 s 63 ..................................................... 324–325 Mental Incapacity Act 2005 (c 9) .................. 334 Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c 21) .............................................. 268, 503, 507 Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966 ........................................................ 212 Misrepresentation Act 1967 (c 7) ......... 386, 390 National Health Service Law Reform (Personal Injury) Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo 6 c 48) s 2(4) ..........................................................

Intentional injury will give a claim based in trespass, but unintentional injury gives a claim based in negligence. The claimant was unsuccessful. Before leaving this introduction, mention should be made of the tort of defamation. Slander has its roots in the old ecclesiastical law. Libel stems from the old prerogative law which regarded certain written statements as prejudicial to the state. Both libel and slander eventually found a home in the common law courts. As will be seen in Chapter 14, the tort of defamation continues to have its own unique characteristics.

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