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New to Hart Publishing, this is the seventh edition of the classic casebook on tort, the first of its kind in the UK, and for many years now a bestselling and very popular text for students. This new edition retains all the features that have made it such a popular and respected text, with extensive commentary, questions and notes supplementing the selection of cases and statutes which form the core of the book. Taking a broadly contextual approach, the book addresses all the main topics in tort law, is up-to-date, doctrinally sound, stimulating and highly readable. Review of the previous edition:

An extremely accessible, useful and impressive collection of cases and materials. -- unknown * Student Law Journal * Review of the previous edition:

The extracts are expertly chosen and provide the necessary information without being too brief. The text, whilst being accessible, is also thought-provoking with a number of excellent questions posed at the end of extracts allowing the reader to consider an issue's wider implications. -- unknown * Student Law Journal * Review of the previous edition:

I have no hesitation in recommending Hepple & Matthews' Tort: Cases and Materials to anyone interested in or studying this intriguing area of law. Its advantages are two-fold: it is written in an extremely accessible and clear way and, at the same time, encourages the reader to undertake independent research and thought. -- unknown * Student Law Journal *

Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law: Cases and Materials

Contents

Introduction 1

PART ONE: Principles and policy of negligence

1. An action for damages in perspective

1 The Bradford football fire

2 Points for discussion

3 Civil Justice Reforms and Funding of Civil Actions

2. The duty of care

1 General Principles

2 Pure Omissions

3 Proximity and Failure to Prevent Harm

3. Duty of care: special problems

1 Liability of Public Authorities

2 Psychiatric Harm

3 Wrongful Conception, Wrongful Birth, and the Unborn Child

4. Pure economic loss

1 The Origins of the Rule against the Recovery of Negligently Caused Economic Loss

2 What Is Pure Economic Loss?

3 The Hedley Byrne Exception

4 The Basis and Development of the Hedley Byrne Exception

5 The Measure of Damages under Hedley Byrne: The 'Scope' of the Duty

5. Breach of duty

1 The Reasonable Person

2 Application of the Standard of Care

3 Aids in Discharging the Burden of Proof

6. Causation and Remoteness of Damage

1 Factual Causation

2 Selection among Operative Factual Causes

3 Foreseeability of the Kind of Damage

4 Development of The Wagon Mound Doctrine

7. Defences : contributory negligence , volenti non fit injuria , exclusion of liability, and

illegality and public policy

1 Contributory Negligence

2 Volenti non fit injuria

3 Exclusion of Liability

4 Illegality and Public Policy

8. Assessment of damages

1 The Aims of an Award of Damages

2 Personal Injuries

3 Property Damage

PART TWO: SPECIFIC DU TIES AND INTERESTS

9. LIABILITY FOR DEFECTIVE PREMISES

1 Occupiers' Liability

2 Non-occupiers' Liability for Premises

10. Product Liability

1 Negligence

2 Statutory Liability

11. Liability for animals

12. Breach of Statutory Duty

1 Express Creation of New Torts

2 Express Exclusion of Civil Remedy

3 Creation of New Torts by Judicial Interpretation of Statutes

4 The Scope of Protection

5 The 'Eurotort'

6 A Note on Health and Safety Legislation

13. Intentional Interference with the Person

1 Trespass, Intention, and Negligence

2 Assault and Battery

3 False Imprisonment

4 The 'Tort in Wilkinson v Downton' and Harassment

5 Defences

14. Interference with Land

1 Trespass to Land

2 Public Nuisance

3 Private Nuisance

4 Escape of Dangerous Things from Land

5 Fire

15. Intentional economic torts

1 Conspiracy

2 Inducing Breach of Contract

3 Causing Loss by Unlawful Means-the 'Unlawful Means Tort'

4 The Tort of Deceit

16. Interests in Reputation -Defamation

1 Defamation and Freedom of Expression

2 Who Can Sue? 975

3 Words or Matter Defamatory of the Claimant

4 The Distinction between Defamation and Malicious Falsehoods

5 Publication

6 Defences

7 Remedies

8 The Distinction between Libel and Slander

17. Invasion of Privacy

PART THREE: Loss Distribution

18. Vicarious Liability

1 Justification for Vicarious Liability

2 Relationship of Employer and Employee

3 Relationships beyond Employment

4 Connection between the Relationship of the Tortfeasor and the Defendant and the Act of the Tortfeasor

5 Liability for Independent Contractors

6 Employer's Liability to Employees

19. Joint Liability

1 Joint Tortfeasance

2 Contribution between Tortfeasors

20. Insurance and Compensation

1 The Relationship between Insurance and Tort Liability

2 Compulsory Insurance Provisions

3 Motor Insurers' Bureau

4 The Settlement Process

5 Other Compensation Systems

6 The Future of Compensation

Further Reading