Tort Law

Establishing the existence and scope of the duty of care in negligence

Control mechanisms limiting recovery for purely psychiatric harm in negligence law

The exclusionary rule in negligence and its incremental exceptions for reliance and assumption of responsibility.

When the common law requires positive action and the special immunities of the state.

The objective standard of care, probabilistic calculus, and proof of breach in negligence.

Factual causation, legal causation, and the limits of liability in tort.

The foreseeability rules that cabin liability once duty, breach, and causation are proved.

Contributory negligence, voluntary assumption of risk, and the illegality defence explored in doctrine and policy.

The dual statutory regimes governing liability for defective premises and the classification of visitors.

The non-delegable duty of employers, vicarious liability after Lister and Various Claimants v CWS, and the post-2016 Supreme Court refinements.

The law of nuisance protects rights in land from unreasonable interferences and certain public wrongs.

Strict liability for non-natural uses: from Victorian reservoirs to modern industrial risk.

Assault, battery, false imprisonment, and the rule in Wilkinson v Downton — the intentional torts to the person and their post-Rhodes v OPO refinement.

The Defamation Act 2013 — serious harm, the truth, honest opinion, and public-interest defences, plus libel, slander, and the post-2013 case-law.

The equitable tort of misuse shielding informational autonomy and human dignity in English law.

The law governing compensatory damages, injunctions, and restitutionary remedies in tortious claims.