Clerk and Lindsell on Torts

Clerk & Lindsell on Torts, one of our flagship titles and part of the Common Law Library series, is an essential reference tool which is widely referred to by practitioners and cited by the judiciary. It offers the most comprehensive coverage of the subject, providing the end user with indispensable access to current, frequent and unrivalled authoritative information on all aspects of tort law.

• Provides unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage on all areas of tort law
• Sets out the general principles of liability and causation
• Explains the general defences, such as claimants wrongdoing, contributory negligence, consent and assumption of risk, exclusion of liability and miscellaneous defences
• Covers all areas of tort, from joint liability and vicarious liability to capacity and parties, from negligence to breach of statutory duty and professional liability, and from product liability and occupiers' liability to employers liability and public service liability
• Deals with important areas from malicious prosecution to wrongful interference with goods, from deceit to trespass of land and dispossession, from animals' liability to nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher, and from malicious falsehood to economic torts
• Discusses statutory IP rights, passing off and breach of confidence and privacy
• Includes a fully updated chapter on Defamation
• Deals extensively with damages
• Covers injunctions and limitation periods
• Includes discussion of self-help and discharge of torts
• Considers relevant human rights issues