Contents: Chapter 1: Battery: Direct act of the defendant -- The act must be the voluntary act of the defendant -- State of mind of the defendant -- There must be physical contact with the person of the plaintiff -- Lack of consent -- Consent -- Privileged contact -- Positive act (not omission to act) -- Chapter 2: Assault -- Chapter 3 -- Unlawful arrest -- Chapter 4: False imprisonment: The imprisonment must be total -- The relevance of knowledge or consciousness of the imprisonment -- "Directness" for the purpose of false imprisonment -- Chapter 5: Malicious prosecution: Prosecution -- Termination of prosecution in plaintiff favour -- Absence of reasonable and probable cause -- Malice -- Damage -- Chapter 6: The rule in Wilkinson v Downtown -- Chapter 7: International interference with property (trespass to land) -- Direct act -- Physical interference with the land -- Lack of consent -- Voluntary act -- Who may sue in trespass -- The subject matter of trespass to land -- Trespass to the surface -- Trespass to the airspace -- Trespass to the sub-soil -- Chapter 8: Trespass to chattels: General principles -- Direct act -- Trespass to chattels is actionable per se -- The person suing and th chattel interferred with -- Requisite mental requirement -- Chapter 9: Conversion: Capacity to sue -- Possession for the purpose of conversion -- Right to immediate possession -- Required mental state -- Subject matter of conversion -- Conversion in relation to bailments -- Denial of plaintiff rights/ title of chattel -- Damages recoverable -- Chapter 10: Defences to international torts: Inevitable accident -- consent -- self defence -- Defence of one's property -- Mistake -- Necessity -- Abatement of nuisance -- Discipline -- An act that is both a crime and a tort -- Reception of chattels -- Contributory negligence -- Chapter 11: Nuisance: Public nuisance -- Private nuiance -- Factors tha determine what act constitutes a private nuisance -- Assessing damages -- who can sue -- Who can be sued -- Act of trespassers (failure to remedy) -- Defences to nuisance -- Statutory authority -- Abatement of nuisance -- Chapter 12: The rule of Rylands v Fletcher: Statement of the rule -- Elements -- Liability for injury to an occupier -- Liability to a non-occupier -- Act of a third party -- Act of God -- Statutory duty -- Chapter 13: Economic torts: Passing off -- Intention of defendant -- Defences -- Interference with contractual relations -- Damage -- Defences -- Injurious falsehood -- Damage -- Conspiracy.