Product Description

First or second year LLB courses in tort in law departments. One-year full-time or two-year part-time CPE (common professional examination) or Diploma courses in law departments. Concise, clear and up to date exposition of the main principles of the law of tort that provides the reader with a thorough knowledge of the subject area. To support this, extracts from a variety of key judgments and statutes are provided, along with questions and suggested approaches. The latter can be used to illustrate the application of the principles involved. The author is a well known and respected writer in the area of the common law of obligations and has published articles in a number of academic journals.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1631392 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 472 pages

Review

"Cooke... gives clear examples, set out in italics, using everyday scenarios with which students will be familiar."

"..ideally suited to those studying the law of torts for the first time"

The Law Teacher, v39 n3 2005

From the Back Cover

Cover Blurb - Law of Tort 5e - Cooke

Law of Tort

has established a reputation as a concise, clear and up to date student textbook on the main principles of the law of torts.

The fifth edition has been revised to take account of new civil procedure terminology and important new cases and statutory developments, including:

Coverage of the current and potential effect of the Human Rights Act 1998 on the law of tort, including policy immunity in negligence and the implications of Article 8 for privacy law

in the area of pure economic loss, coverage of the advance of assumption of responsibility and abandonment of the distinction between liability for statements and liability for acts

expansion of the chapter on defamation to include a new section on privacy

Law of Tort provides the reader with a thorough knowledge of the subject area. To support this, extracts from a variety of key statutes are provided at the end of the book and questions and suggested approaches can be found at the ends of some of the chapters. The latter can be used to illustrate the application of the principles involved.

John Cooke, LLB, M.Phil., Barrister, is Head of Law at Liverpool John Moores University. He has published articles in a number of academic journals and co-authored an authoritative work on the law of obligations.

The accessible and readable books in this series are written for law students for the foundation subjects required on law degrees and on postgraduate common professional examination courses. Ideal for part-time and distance-learning courses as well as modularised traditional courses, the books are intended to be used in conjunction with other sources such as law reports and case books.

Longman an imprint of Pearson Education

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About the Author
John Cooke, Principal Lecturer in Law, Liverpool John Moores University

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
This book is a good mid level book on Tort, it is easy to understand without lacking any detail. It contains some case synopsis and enough detail to thoroughly understand the subject without being unduly wordy.

Clear and Concise
Great book for anyone studying Tort for the first time. It is very easy to read, especially if you don't want to sift through a load of rubbish. Although if you want to get the full scope of Tort 'Textbook on Torts' By Michael A. Jones gives slightly more depth, but John Cooke's 'Law of Tort' is a valuable aid!

Concise and clear
Like all of the previous editions of this book, the student is immediately capable of grasping the main ideas involved in the law of tort. However, as previously, a student will need to personally supplement this book in order to gain a further depth of knowledge in the subject. This seems to be anticipated by the list of further reading material after each chapter.