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Butterworths Student Companion: Torts, 7th edition
Butterworths Student Companion, Torts contains concise and witty summaries of the leading New Zealand and international decisions which have shaped the law of torts.
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Student Companion: Torts, seventh edition, is an easy-to-read study guide designed to help students consolidate their understanding of tort law. It contains concise and lively summaries of leading New Zealand and international decisions which have shaped the law of torts.
Written by Geoff McLay, this book can be used by students in conjunction with lecture notes and text materials as an aid to understanding and remembering important cases.
Other titles in the Student Companion series include:
Company Law Cartwright & Harrison
Contract Law (5th edition) Walker
Criminal Law (5th edition) Stephens
Employment Law (2nd edition) Russell & Heenan
Equity (4th edition) Gibbons and Gibson
Evidence (2nd edition) Midson
Family Law (2nd edition) Ballanytyne
Intellectual Property (2nd edition) Kingsbury
Land Law (5th edition) Wass
Public Law (7th edition) Dorset
Resource Management Warnock & Suszko
Tax Elliffe & Marr
Table of contents
• Negligence
- Duty of Care
- Causation
- Breach
- Tort and Contract
- Contributory Negligence
- Limitations
• Defamation
- Parliamentary Privilege
- Judicial Proceedings
• Interference with Goods
• Trespass to Person
- Assault
- Battery
- False Imprisonment
• Privacy and Infliction of Emotional Distress
• Land-based Torts
- Nuisance
- Trespass
• Rylands v Fletcher
• Public Torts
• Equality and the Common Law
• Accident Compensation
• Exemplary Damages
• Vicarious Liability