The law of torts is a vibrant and fast-moving area of the legal system. Unlocking Torts will ensure that you grasp the main concepts with ease providing you with an essential foundation to tort law. This third edition is fully up-to-date with the latest developments in the law and now includes all significant new cases, more discussion of consumer protection and recent information on proposed statutory developments in the area of liability for animals.
Plenty of cases for citation, quotations and journal extracts are provided to illustrate and expand upon the text.
Key features include: * Diagrams at the start of chapters to summarise the key points * Structured heading levels to allow for clear recall of the main facts * Charts and tables to break down more complex information New to these editions ...
CASE EXAMPLE Banco Exterior Internacional v Mann [1994] 1 All ER 936 The husband in the case owned a company.Thecompany tooka loan fromthe bank which was secured, among other things, by acharge on the matrimonial home thatwas jointly ...
All titles in the series follow the same formula and include the same features so students can move easily from one subject to another.
This book is a broad and deep inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance.
Ten additional chapters on more advanced topics can be found online, completing the learning package. This new edition has been updated to take account of important cases, legislative developments and law reform studies since July 2015.
(How much practical import their point has is less clear since pragmatically it will be quite difficult to estimate the acceleration of disease in those who would have contracted it in the natural course of events.) Robbins ...
See further RA Kagan , ' The Routinisation of Debt Collection : An Essay on Social Change and Conflict in the Courts ' ( 1984 ) 18 Law and Society Review 323 and H Collins , Regulating Contracts ( 1999 ) pp 324-5 . n 13 , p 267 . ibid ...
Presents Maimonides' complete tort theory, and how it compares with other tort theories both in the Jewish world and beyond.
The rationale and policies behind Vaughan v. Menlove, in addition to supporting an objective negligence standard, apply more broadly to the choice of law problem.8 Suppose X is standing in state A and throwing stones at Y, ...