Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law at the University of Oxford. He is also Francis Reynolds and Clarendon Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.
Ken Oliphant is Professor of Tort Law at the University of Bristol.

• 1: General introduction


• 2: Intentional interference with the person


• 3: Negligence: introduction


• 4: Breach of duty


• 5: Damage, causation and scope of liability


• 6: Defences to negligence


• 7: Negligence: duty of care - psychiatric illness


• 8: Negligence: duty of care - economic loss


• 9: Negligence: duty of care - omissions and acts of third parties


• 10: Statutory liability regimes


• 11: Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher


• 12: Defamation


• 13: Privacy


• 14: Vicarious liability


• 15: Damages for personal injury


• 16: Death and damages


• 17: How tort works

The seventh edition of Lunney & Oliphant's Tort Law: Text and Materials provides a complete, authoritative guide to the subject. The book combines clear overviews of the law with well-chosen extracts from cases and materials supported by insightful commentary.