"Professor Madden's magisterial survey of ancient law going forward is exquisitely written and a real delight for historians of tort law...This quality collection is first-rate torts scholarship which will be of great interest to tort scholars, law students, and graduate students in sociology as well as philosophy." 
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This new edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate the Human Rights Act 1998 which has meant a change in emphasis in the duty chapter in particular. The effect of the Osman case before the European Court on Human Rights is now being felt in this and other areas as is evident from the judgments of the House of Lords in Barrett v Enfield BC. The Law Commission's proposals on Liability for Psychiatric Illness have also been included as well as an extract from White v South West Yorkshire Police. Other important House of Lords cases covered include Hunter v Canary Wharf (recasting the tort of nuisance) and Reynolds v Times Newspapers (a major case on the scope the defence of qualified privilege). On damages, reference has been made to the several Law Commission reports and the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997. This section also takes into account the landmark decision of the House In the Wells case in relation to the appropriate rate of ! return to be taken into account when assessing loss of future earnings. Other new pieces of legislation include the Damages Act 1996 and the Defamation Act of the same year. 

The aim of this book is to demonstrate to the well-prepared candidate how to translate the knowledge gained through studies, into answers that will attract high grades, not by the quoting of abstruse cases that settle fine points of law, but by the logical use of material that should be within the student's knowledge.

Topics in which there have been recent developments are always popular with examiners, and included in this book are questions involving duty of care, nervous shock, liability of the police and rescue services, defamation and damages, as well as other ever-popular areas that are regularly tested by examiners.

A study of this book will result in a dramatic increase in the examination grades of the reader. 

This work is intended as a study/revision aid for students, rather than as a substitute for more detailed treatises. It analyzes the law of tort in terms of the issues that are likely to be of interest to examiners and explains these areas in an accessible manner, as well as summarizing existing academic opinion. The emphasis throughout is on facilitating students' understanding of a topic. The new edition takes into account recent developments in the law of tort. These include the increasing use of the law of negligence in sport; further developments when suing public bodies for breach of a duty of care; the increasing influence of the European Court of Human Rights on the development of the law of tort; changes in the method of calculating personal injuries damages; the liability of Internet service providers in the law of defamation and use of the qualified privilege defence in libel.