The course examines some contemporary issues in the law of torts, in order to evaluate the law's response to social change and to provide students with a sound preparation for legal practice.

Topics include a detailed treatment of defamation and privacy, and the torts relating to the intentional and negligent infliction of purely economic loss. Other topics deal with contemporary issues in the law of negligence (eg, actions for 'wrongful birth' and 'wrongful life') and new applications of the law of trespass, with implications for civil liberties and privacy, for regulating non-consensual medical procedures, and for intervening in abusive domestic relationships.

Torts LAWS1203.
Completed or completing five LAWS courses at 1000 level.

Please refer to LAWS2233 course home page.

Please refer to LAWS2233 course home page.

Aspects of this course obviously follow on from Torts, and students may find it advantageous to take this course early in their degree. But since the course aims to equip students for the practice of the law, other students may prefer to undertake it nearer to the completion of their studies.