Law of Torts

Аннотация

Salmond and Heuston on the Law of Torts, now in its twentieth edition, includes the many recent developments that the law of tort has witnessed, both statutory and in case law. The impact of the House of Lords decision in Murphy v. Brentwood D.C. is assessed as are the significant developments relating to liability for misstatements, for causing nervous shock and for allowing the causing of damage by a third party. Other important judicial clarifications of the law in relation to causation in fact, liability for animals, the pleading rales in relation to the defences of defamation of justification and fair comment, and the economic torts, the latter in the case of Lonrho pic v. Al Fayed, are also included.