Clerk & Lindsell on Torts 24th ed with 1st Supplement

Clerk & Lindsell on Torts, one of our flagship titles and part of the Common Law Library series, is an essential reference tool which is widely referred to by practitioners and cited by the judiciary. It offers the most comprehensive coverage of the subject, providing the end user with indispensable access to current, frequent and unrivalled authoritative information on all aspects of tort law.

Key Features:

• Provides unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage on all areas of tort law
• Sets out the general principles of liability and causation
• Explains in detail general defences, such as claimant’s wrongdoing, consent and assumption of risk, exclusion of liability and miscellaneous defences
• Covers all areas of tort, from joint liability and vicarious liability to capacity and parties, from negligence to breach of statutory duty and professional liability, and from product liability and occupiers’ liability to employers’ liability and public service liability
• Deals with other important areas from malicious prosecution to wrongful interference with goods, from deceit to trespass to land, from liability for animals to nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher, and from malicious falsehood to the economic torts
• Discusses statutory IP rights and passing of
• Includes fully updated and detailed chapters on defamation, breach of confidence and misuse of private information
• Deals extensively with damages and other remedies including injunctions
• Covers limitation periods in detail
• Considers all heads of liability with regard to the relevant human rights issues
• Takes full account of the effects of Brexit

The 24th edition, published in September 2023, has now been updated with a First Supplement published in July 2023. The First Supplement brings the 24th edition fully up to date with the latest case law and other developments (including, where appropriate, the fallout from the completion of the Brexit process).