Casebook on Tort Law

Kirsty Horsey is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent, and has taught tort law to undergraduate students across all years for over 20 years. Her research interests lie in the overlap of medical, family and tort law. She has written widely on the regulation of assisted reproduction and in particular surrogacy, was Senior Research Associate at London Women's Clinic from September 2021 - August 2023, and is the editor of a number of related edited collections. She is co-author (with Erika Rackley) of Casebook on Tort Law (17th edn, OUP, 2024) and ort Law (8th edn, OUP, 2023). She tweets at @khorsey.Erika Rackley is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent. Her research and teaching interests span torts, judicial studies, law and gender, criminal law and legal history. She has written extensively on these topics. Her research has shaped and informed policy and public debate and has been discussed by the UK and Scottish governments, in The Guardian, and on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour and Law in Action.

• 1: Introduction 2: Duty of care: basic principles 3: Special duty problems: omissions and acts of third parties 4: Special duty problems: psychiatric harm 5: Special duty problems: public bodies 6: Special duty problems: economic loss 7: Breach of duty: the standard of care 8: Causation and remoteness of damage 9: Defences to negligence 10: Occupiers' liability 11: Product liability 12: Breach of statutory duty 13: Intentional interferences with the person 14: Invasion of privacy 15: Defamation 16: Trespass to land and nuisance 17: Actions under Rylands v Fletcher 18: Vicarious liability 19: Damages for death and personal injuries