Tort Law

Download or read book Tort Law written by Nicholas J. McBride and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bookprovides readers with an extremely lucid, intelligent and lively overview of the entire law of tort. The rules and principles making up this area of the law are clearly set out and brought to life by considering how they apply in concrete situations. At the same time, key issues in the law of tort (such as, among many others, the scope of public authority liability in negligence, the effect of the law of defamation on freedom of speech, the scope and rationale of vicarious liability, and the scope of liability under the Consumer Protection Act 1987) are critically discussed in great detail.