Table of Contents

*Principles and Rules of Civil Liability *Vicarious Liability *Concurrent Wrongdoing *Defences *Limitation of Actions *Negligence *Recovery for Nervous Shock *Recovery for Pure Economic Loss *Professional Negligence *Causation *Trespass to the Person *Employers' Liability *Breach of Statute & Civil Liability *Liability for Defective Products *Occupiers' Liability

About the Author

John Healy is a practising barrister at the Four Courts, Dublin. He teaches Torts to many students in Ireland through the popular courses run by Griffith College preparatory to the FE1 and King's Inns entrance examinations. He is author of Medical Negligence: Common Law Perspectives (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1999) and Irish Laws of Evidence (Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2004). He has published and presented numerous articles and papers on torts over the past ten years, and is now one of Ireland's most respected and widely read writers on the law.