Carol Brennan

Tort law: directions

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams, and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This book covers all the core areas of tort law, combining an engaging approach with plenty of learning features. It provides a detailed introduction to the key principles of tort law, and illustrates the points of law through discussions of important court cases. Key cases are discussed to illustrate the main principles of tort law; they help to bring the subject to life, allowing students to see how the law operates in practice. This new edition of the text includes increased focus on the influence of human rights on tort law. It is fully updated with recent case law highlighting how quickly tort law is developing particularly in areas of negligence, reforms to the law of defamation, liability, privacy, and limitation. Key cases from 2013 are highlighted such as Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society (2013) on vicarious liability and Tamiz v Google Inc (2013) on the liability of website operators.