Tort Law

Defamation

Employer's Liability

Vicarious Liability

Occupier's Liability

Nuisance

Neglience - Duty of Care

Negligence - Causation, Remoteness & Damage

Negligence - Breach

Negligence - Defences & Proof

Elements of Negligence

Duty, Breach, Causation and Damage

Tort of Negligence - Res Ipsa Loquitur & Negligence Per Se

Four elements: Duty, Breach, Causation and Damage. Res Ipsa Loquitur - Negligent behaviour which constitutes the duty and breach elements...

Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 & 1984

The Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 (OLA 1957) imposes a duty of care on occupiers to all lawful visitors to ensure that they are...

Tort Cases: McLoughlin v O'Brian [1983] 1 AC 410

An English tort law case, decided by the House of Lords, dealing with the possibility of recovering for psychiatric harm suffered as a...

Tort Cases: Haley v London Electricity Board [1965] A.C. 778

The defendants were excavating a 60-ft long trench along the pavement. They had put a punner hammer and other signs that warned the...

Tort Cases: Kent v Griffiths [2000] 2 WLR 1158 Court of Appeal

The claimant was having an asthma attack. Her doctor attended her home and called for an ambulance at 16.25. The ambulance, which was...

Tort Cases: Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1987] UKHL 12, [1989] AC 53

The House of Lords unanimously struck out the claim as disclosing no justiciable cause of action, upholding the decision of the judge at...

Tort Cases: Caparo Industries pIc v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605

Caparo Industries PLC v Dickman [1990] UKHL 2 is a test for a duty of care. The House of Lords, following the Court of Appeal, set out a...

Tort Cases: Rylands v Fletcher [1868] LR 3 HL 330

Liability under Rylands v Fletcher is is a leading decision by the House of Lords regarded as a particular type of negligence. It is a...