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Description
Now in its eleventh edition, Street on Torts has long been renowned for its dear and wide-ranging coverage of the law of torts. It clearly explains how torts actually work and the social purposes behind them. The book covers the whole range of torts, including, particularly, negligence, defamation, trespass, the economic torts, nuisance and the growing area of breach of confidence/privacy.
John Murphy continues to build upon the work of the original author, Harry Street, retaining the same basic structure, reflecting the range and hierarchy of interests protected by tort law.
The new edition has been substantially reworked, especially in the areas of the duty of care in negligence, causation, product liability, vicarious liability, defamation, occupiers' liability and the economic torts. This rewriting and reorganisation within chapters has been necessitated by a host of significant decisions since the last edition in 1999. The growing significance of the Human Rights Act 1998 throughout the whole of tort law - but especially in relation to the protection of privacy, defamation and nuisance - is also fully covered in this eleventh edition.
Street on Torts is justifiably one of the most highly regarded works available
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Contents
Part I - Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Law of Torts
Part II - Intentional Invasions of Interest in Person and Property
Chapter 2 - Intentional Torts today
Chapter 3 - Trespass to the Person and Related Torts
Chapter 4 - Wrongful Interference With Goods
Chapter 5 - Trespass to Land
Chapter 6 - Defences to the Intentional Torts
Part III - Intentional interference with economic interests
Chapter 7 - Interference with economic Interests
Chapter 8 - False Representations
Chapter 9 - Interference with Contract or Trade
Chapter 10 - Intellectual Property Interests
Part IV - Negligent Invasions of interests in person and property and economic Interests
Chapter 11 - Duty of Care I: Foundational Principles
Chapter 12 - Duty of Care II: Recognised Harm
Chapter 13 - Breach of Duty
Chapter 14 - Causation
Chapter 15 - Defences to Negligence
Chapter 16 - Liability for Defective Premises and Structures
Part V - Invasions of Interests in Person and Property where Intentional or Negligent Conduct need not always be Proved
Chapter 17 - Product Liability
Chapter 18 - Nuisance
Chapter 19 - Rylands V Fletcher
Chapter 20 - Animals
Chapter 21 - Breach of Statutory Duty
Part VI - Interests in Reputation - Defamation
Chapter 22 - Defamation: Foundational Principles
Chapter 23 - Defences and Remedies in Defamation
Part VII - Misuse of Process
Chapter 24 - Misuse of Process
Part VIII - Remedies and Parties
Chapter 25 - Vicarious Liability
Chapter 26 - Remedies
Chapter 27 - Compensation for personal injuries and associated Losses
Chapter 28 - Extinction of Remedies
Chapter 29 - Capacity and Parties
Appendix 1 - Convention Rights
Appendix 2 - Defamation Act 1996
Index
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Author Details
John Murphy is a senior lecturer at Manchester University. He has written and taught widely on Torts, Family Law and Health Care Law, both in this country and abroad. He is currently an editor of Clerk and Line/sell on Torts. He is also the principal author of Ethnic Minorities, (heir Families and the Law and a co-author of Health Care Law: Text and Materials (with McHale and Fox)
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