The Law of Tort - Complete Study Guide

This revision guide is the culmination of all the Lessons on the Subject of English Law of Tort from the Law Academy. With a new clean format, extra information and key cases clearly highlighted, you are able to follow along with the lessons using this guide!

This is not the most in depth or detailed revision guide on the subject. However, its value comes in being able to concisely understand core legal concepts and be able to illustrate these with key cases.

How to Use This Guide

To get the best out of this guide, I recommend you follow along with the lessons which are already published. This way you will be able to get the most out of both the guide and the lessons published in order to get a better understanding of the core legal concepts.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank @lotta.obscure for the amazing cover drawing!

Disclaimer

This revision guide follows the Law Academy Lessons. Those lessons were made from a culmination of different sources, revision notes and textbooks, all of which are cited in the descriptions of each video. The Citations for this guide and those lessons are:

P. Giliker, Tort (Sweet & Maxwell, 2023).
C. Brennan, Tort Law Concentrate (4th edn, Oxford University Press, 2017).

G. Williams & B. Hepple, Foundations of the Law of Tort (2nd edn, Butterworths, 1984).

D. Ibbetson, "The Tort of Negligence in the Common Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" in E. Schrage (ed.), Negligence: The Comparative Legal History of the Law of Torts (Duncker & Humblot, 2001).
M. Davies, "The End of the Affair: Duty of Care and Liability Insurance" [1989] 9 L.S. 67.

R. Merkin & J. Steele, Insurance and the Law of Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2013).

P. Cane, Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law (8th edn, 2013). R.A. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law (9th edn, Wolters Kluwer, 2014).

As always, I am open to any recommendations and suggestions for improvements and highlights of mistakes and errors within the guide. Unfortunately, since the law is a complex area and is ever changing, all texts and lessons on the subject will inevitably be open to errors and mistakes, no matter how minor. Where there are any such errors, suggestions and/or recommendations, feel free to email them to me at: thelawacademy444@gmail.com.