Table of cases: pages xiii-lxiii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction: Overview of tort law -- Negligent invasions of personal, property, and financial interests: Duty of care I: foundational principles -- Duty of care II: bodily injury and psychiatric illness -- Duty of care III: property damage and purely financial loss -- Duty of care IV: public authorities -- Breach of duty -- Causation and remoteness -- Defences to negligence -- Liability for defective premises and structures -- Intentional invasions of interests in the person and property: Trespass to the person and related torts -- Wrongful interference with goods -- Trespass to land -- Defences to intentional tors against the person of property -- Misrepresentation-based and 'economic' torts: False representations -- The general 'economic torts -- Torts involving strict or stricter liability: Product liability -- Nuisance -- The rule in Rylands v Fletcher -- Breach of statutory duty -- Interests in reputation: defamation: Defamation: foundational principles -- Defences and remedies in defamation -- Privacy: Privacy actions in tort -- Misuse of process and public powers: Misuse of process and public powers -- Parties and remedies: Vicarious liability -- Capacity and parties -- Remedies --