Clerk & Lindsell on Torts (plus 4th supplement)

Clerk & Lindsell on Torts is the definitive work in this area. It offers the most comprehensive coverage available, providing the user with indispensable access to current, frequent and unrivalled authoritative information on all aspects of tort. An essential reference tool, it is widely referred to and cited by practitioners and the judiciary. The work covers all areas of tort, including negligence, defamation, nuisance and trespass, and statutory torts. It deals with each tort individually, chapter by chapter, and sets out possible defences while considering relevant human rights issues. - The 3rd cumulative Supplement was published in October 2008 - The 2nd cumulative Supplement was published in November 2007 - The 1st Supplement was published in December 2006 - Covers all the torts in one place, saving time looking elsewhere - Offers unequalled explanation of the general principles - Comprehensive commentary on recent case law shows how the general principles apply to different situations - Relevant to all common law countries, considering commonwealth law where relevant - Supplemented regularly The 3rd cumulative supplement brings the mainwork fully up to date with the latest developments, including decisions of the House of Lords: - Rothwell v Chemical & Insulating Co. on the meaning of “damage” in personal injury claims and the foreseeability of psychiatric harm from fear of future disease - Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd on an accident victim’s subsequent suicide and the chain of causation - Smith v Chief Constable of Sussex Police stating that the police owe no general duty of care to individuals in discharging their public duty of combating and investigating crime - Van Colle v Chief Constable of the Hertfordshire Police on the application of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights to the role of the police in investigating crime - Ashley v Chief Constable of Sussex Police stating that the defence of self-defence to an action for trespass to the person requires not only an honest, but a reasonably held, belief by the defendant that he was about to be attacked - Revenue & Customs Commissioners v Total Network SL on what constitutes unlawful means for the purposes of the tort of conspiracy - A v Hoare on the personal injury limitation period in respect of actions in trespass to the person (overruling Stubbings v Webb), and the correct interpretation of s. 14(2) of the Limitation Act 1980.