Product Description

This is the new edition of the well-established and widely recommended textbook on the law of torts by Professor Michael Jones. The eighth edition offers concise, yet comprehensive and accurate coverage and provides detailed analysis that encourages an in-depth understanding of this core area of law. Jones' accessible writing style is further developed within a revised page layout that enhances the clear and easy-to-use nature of this popular text. The content of the work has been revised and updated, mapping well on to current tort courses with particular emphasis on the tort of negligence and related areas. New to this edition is comprehensive coverage of decisions of the House of Lords, such as Phelps vs. Hillingdon London Borough Council (2000), Lister vs. Hesley Hall Ltd. (2001), and Delaware Mansions Ltd. vs. Westminster City Council (2001); as well as Decisions of the Court of Appeal, such as Kane vs. New Forest DC (2001), Fairchild vs. Glenhaven Funeral Services (2001), and Allen vs. British Rail Engineering (2001). Written specifically with undergraduates in mind, this is an essential textbook for students of all abilities following degree and CPE courses in tort law.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #239185 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 784 pages

About the Author
Michael A Jones is Professor of Common Law at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of many titles involved in Tort Law and is also a co-editor if the Blackstone Statutes on Medical Law, also published by OUP.

Customer Reviews

A prime example of a good text on tort law
The text is suited to the student of tort law who requires not only enough knowledge to get through their particular exam but also for use later in both their academic and professional careers. It acts both as a text book and reference work for that undergraduate student and for this reason is an example to several other works of the same genre.

Fabulous
I have just started a Law degree and for one - me and textbooks = not a good mix. What I want is something that sounds like it was written by an actual human being, not a 100yr old armed with a theaurus, which let's face it, is true of many Law text books. This book however, is very readable, I find. Cases are presented cleanly and concisely, and are analysed well and revelently (again, I've been finding irrelevance in issue with my law textbooks!). Its been said in these reviews that this book is too detailed, but this has not presented a problem for me. Also, something I love about this book is the use of brackets instead of footnotes! My lecturer said that this was the downside of this book so maybe that format isn't for everyone, but I hate footnotes with a passion so it works for me!

All in all, this is a very readable book, and structured such that throughout, it is relatively easy to sift through the information that you do and do not need. Highly reccommended for over-whelmed undergraduates everywhere.

Tremendous detail.
All the main topics such as Defamation, Nuisance and negligence which breaks up into three chapters of duty of care, standard of care and causeation are included.

The detail is startling. This is a bit of double edge sword because although this detail if you are practicing would be necessary, it may be a little a little too much for a standard law degree.

For example, the duty of care chapter is over 100 pages long, but on the other hand the substance is useful as all the main cases are explained and critical anaysis is well presented.The style of writing and the chapter breakdown makes it a lot easier to follow.

For Nuisance,the chapter could not have been more helpful. If you're looking for a high mark, then this book is the one to help you.