Cambridge Law Tripos · Part IA
Cambridge Law of Tort
Law of Tort is a Part IA module on the University of Cambridge Law Tripos. Civil wrongs and the compensation that follows them — above all the tort of negligence, but also nuisance, defamation and the rules on who bears the loss.
What Law of Tort covers
- Negligence — duty, breach and causation
- Pure economic and psychiatric loss
- Occupiers' liability
- Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher
- Defamation
- Vicarious liability
- Defences and the assessment of damages
How to revise Law of Tort at Cambridge
Start from the leading cases — every law of tort answer turns on them. Brief each one (facts, issue, held, ratio), then practise applying it to past-paper questions under timed conditions. Our Law of Tort topic hub collects the canonical cases and how they fit together. When you write a practice answer, run it through Quill for exam-grade feedback grounded in the case law, and cite everything with the free OSCOLA generator.
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