Unit name | Law of Tort |
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Unit code | LAWD10011 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Joanne Conaghan |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit will consider the following elements: introduction to case law and doctrines of precedent; introduction to tort law and its role in society; general principles of tortious liability; forms of tortious liability; standards of liability; causation and remoteness of damage; vicarious and joint liability and defences; torts relating to personal injuries, economic losses and land.
By the end of this unit a successful student will be able to:
The unit will be taught by a combination of 30 (x 1 hour) lectures and 8 (x 1 hour) tutorials.
1 x formative assessment (submitted for marking), plus additional informal formative feedback opportunities as indicated by the unit coordinator.
Formative assessments do not count towards final mark and can be optional.
Summative assessment: 1 x 2 hour exam in the Summer Examination Period.
Summative assessments do count towards final mark.
The assessments will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit.
The core unit text is: Paula Giliker, Tort (6th edn, 2017). An alternative would be Horsey & Rackley: Tort Law (5th edn, 2017).
Steele, Tort Law: Text, Cases & Materials (4th edn, 2017)
Lunney, Nolan & Oliphant, Tort Law: Text & Materials (6th edn, 2017).
Students might also usefully refer to Atiyah‘s Accidents, Compensation and the Law (9th edn, 2018), Conaghan & Mansell, The Wrongs of Tort (2nd edn, 1998) and Weir, An Introduction to Tort Law (2nd edn, 2006).