Tort Law (LAW209)

Duty, breach, and causation. Psychiatric harm

Full notes covering the topic of nuisance in tort law, including the rule in Rylands v Fletcher. These notes have key topic descriptions, full case names which are highlighted, judges comments and academic commentary (highlighted in red) that are very important for the exams.

Notes on Vicarious Liability in tort law. Within these notes are case names, full case details, including judges comments. These notes are easy to follow as I have provided subheadings and all cases are highlighted to stand out. All information regarding vicarious liability, you will not need to use any other notes/ read through pages and pages of textbooks as it is all outlined and condensed to a reasonable size in these notes.

Negligence: breach of duty including: the reasonable man standard and special standards such as bolam test.

Negligence: causation and remoteness of damage- includes: causation in fact and causation in law,

Duty of care general principles, the Tripartite test, tort and human rights colliding, duty of care and liability for omissions.

Duty of care: psychiatric injury. The special rules for psychiatric injury, recognised psychiatric injury, primary victims, secondary victims, other categories and reform.

An indepth document on vicarious liability including cases and statute.