Product Description

Undergraduate LLB students studying law. Students on other courses, eg. joint degrees, where a knowledge of tort law is required. Postgraduate students, especially those studying for CPE and other professional qualifications where a knowledge of tort law is required. Also for LLM courses in Tort law and obligations. This book provides a coherent exposition of the law of tort around a framework which identifies clearly the guiding principles, identifying where decided cases have departed from these principles, and marking out the directions in which the law of torts is likely to develop in the future.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1163513 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

Review

Tort Law by McBride and Bagshaw is extremely comprehensive, covering many of the areas of a Tort law course and also additional areas which may be covered by other subjects.Each chapter conveys the information in an easy to understand and straight-forward manner. Each tort is explained by reference to examples. This is very useful as these hypothetic examples spell out the circumstances that the law attempts to address. The companion website is very useful with updates on the most recent cases which are useful for tort law, common law or consumer law student's. The updated cases also include some analytic content which is both thought provoking and useful.

Student Law Journal, University of Hull 

'The authors provide an updating service on the Pearson website covering all new cases and statutes, and providing problems and model answers. This is a valuable resource for students (and lecturers) for a subject which is constantly on the march.'Christine Vallely, University of Wolverhampton, The Law Teacher Vol 37, No 1.

Jason Neyers, Associate Professor of Law, University of Western Ontario
`McBride and Bagshaw's Tort Law is the best of the English student texts.'

William E O'Brian Jr, Associate Professor of Law, University of Warwick
`The authors provide excellent and quite clear explanations for the main principles of tort law, including discussions of hypothetical cases that are used to explain difficult concepts in ways that are very helpful for students.'

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
I bought this book as the compulsory text for the tort course on my law degree, and I really don't like it all that much. There are too many examples, which actually makes it more confusing. There are also some big important points that are made without citations to back them up, so when I went to do practice questions I was, in turn, unable to support some of my points with a citation, and upon reading the model answer I saw a load of cases I'd never heard of.

I've given it a generous rating of 3 stars simply because it's better than not having a textbook. However it does leave a lot to be desired in terms of clarity and citations.

King of Torts
There are many books about the law of tort. Some of them are not for students. Some of them are only for preparing an exam not for studying the law of tort. Sometimes it is very difficult to know what the law of tort is about.
If you want to know what the law of tort is and if you want to study the law of tort, you will find out this book is very helpful. They will give you quite different but very clear explanations of the law of tort.