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Kidner's Casebook on Torts (15th edition)

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Kirsty Horsey; Erika Rackley
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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.

Online resources 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.

Index: 

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

About the author: 

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.

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Kirsty Horsey; Erika Rackley
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Jul 2019
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