Clerk & Lindsell on Torts, one of our flagship titles and part of the Common Law Library series, is an essential reference tool in Tort Law which is widely referred to by practitioners and cited by the judiciary.

Key features:

• Provides unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage on all areas of tort law.
• Includes fully updated and detailed chapters.
• 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.
• Considers all heads of liability with regard to the relevant human rights issues.
• Sets out the general principles of liability and causation.
• Explains in detail general defences, such as claimant’s wrongdoing, consent and assumption of risk, and exclusion of liability and miscellaneous defences.
• Deals extensively with damages and other remedies including injunctions.
• Covers limitation in detail.

New material in the Second Supplement to the Twenty-Fourth Edition:

• Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police on duties of care and omissions.
• Byrne v Motorsport Vision Racing Ltd on occupiers’ liability.
• Hassam v Rabot on damages and the whiplash tariff.
• Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services (UK) Ltd on the illegality defence in tort.
• Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd v United Utilities Water Ltd (No 2) on nuisance and statutory authority.
• Lifestyle Equities CV v Ahmed on accessory liability and the economic torts.
• Harcombe v Associated Newspapers Ltd on meaning in defamation, and also the effect of the Media Act 2024.
• Adams v Amazon Digital UK Ltd on privacy.
• George v Cannell on malicious falsehood.
• Afriyie v Commissioner of Police for the City of London on police liability.
• Calor Gas Ltd v Walsall Gas Cylinders Ltd on conversion and the property torts.
• MBR Acres Ltd v Curtin on trespass and injunctions.

Giliker's Tort law textbook presents an accessible and current picture of the law of torts and is ideal for those approaching the subject for the first time. The text succinctly covers all the major concepts in the law of torts and clearly illustrates how they work in practice by reference to the major cases in this field and the main statutory provisions.