Gain the tools to understand tort law like a professional with this accessible and current text. Tort Law, 6th edition, Global Edition, by Nicholas McBride and Roderick Bagshaw, is an essential text for anyone studying law. Written by two leading scholars in the field, this book will equip you with all the information you need to succeed in your studies, combining detailed coverage of legal principles with wider literature and discussions on topics to develop your critical thinking skills. The text supports your learning through hypothetical case scenarios and guided further reading.

Now in its 6th edition, Tort Law has been extensively updated to include the latest information available on the subject, including all important case-law and legislative developments.

Such developments include material on:

The expansion of vicarious liability.
The treatment of the notion of 'defect.'
Reinvigoration of the tort.
Recognition of a tort of the malicious institution of civil proceedings.
Attempts to reform the law on the defence of illegality.
With its range of learning features and the latest available information, this text is ideal for studying tort law at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Auteur

Nicholas J. McBride is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; he was formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Roderick Bagshaw is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford

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Written by two leading scholars, Tort Law combines detailed coverage of the legal principles, supported by hypothetical case scenarios and guided further reading, with critical discussion of the key academic debates and literature in the subject making it ideal for use by anyone studying tort law at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Extensively updated, this new edition covers all important case-law and legislative developments, including the expansion of vicarious liability in Mohamud v Wm Morrison Supermarkets, the treatment of the notion of 'defect' under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 in Wilkes v Depuy International Ltd, the reinvigoration of the tort in Wilkinson v Downton by O (a child) v Rhodes, the recognition of a tort of the malicious institution of civil proceedings in Willers v Joyce, and the attempts to reform the law on the defence of illegality in Patel v Mirza.