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The Law of Torts, 6/e

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Cited in numerous judicial decisions across Canada, The Law of Torts is an indispensable resource for practitioners, judges, and students seeking a concise and accessible introduction to the principles of tort law, as well as the social policies underlying the law. As with its previous editions, this book reviews the foundations, characteristics, and objectives of tort law with specific discussions of negligence, intentional torts, strict liability, vicarious liability, nuisance, and defamation. It explains the relationships between tort law and other branches of private law, including contract law and restitution, and between tort law and public law, particularly the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The sixth edition explores current trends in judicial decision-making by incorporating significant developments in the law, including a discussion of Supreme Court decisions in the areas of psychiatric injury in negligence law, the scope of the duty of care in negligent misrepresentation, and the role of intervening causes in negligence litigation. The text also discusses new initiatives in the areas of privacy, the responsibility of lawyers who refer their clients to other professionals, human trafficking, and anti-SLAPP legislation.

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Philip H. Osborne

Until his retirement, Philip H Osborne was a professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, where he taught the law of torts and the law of contracts. He is the co-author of Canadian Medical Law: An Introduction for Physicians, Nurses and Other Health Care Practitioners, 4th ed, 2013 (with JC Irvine & MJ Shariff).

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Discussion of origins, characteristics, foundation elements, and objectives of tort law, with a typical torts case used as illustration. 24 $2.40

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Discussion of the basic framework of negligence law, including duty and standard of care, causation, damage, remoteness of damage, defences, and remedies. 120 $12.00

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Discussion of the inherent flexibility of negligence law, the influence of social policy, and the dynamism of the fault concept as illustrated by examples of products liability, informed consent … 120 $12.00

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Discussion of the law of torts dealing with intentional interference with the person, property, and economic interests. 96 $9.60

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Discussion of the individual torts of strict liability plus the concept of vicarious liability. 38 $3.80

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Discussion of the torts of private nuisance and public nuisance. 28 $2.80

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Discussion of the tort of defamation, including its general framework, elements of the cause of action, defences, and remedies. 26 $2.60

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Introduction to relational issues arising in tort law, particularly regarding the private law regimes of contract, fiduciaries, restitution and breach of confidence, and the public law … 15 $1.50

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Survey of trends and themes in Canadian tort law identified as being likely to influence its development and evolution. 17 $1.70