Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is tort law about?

    3. → Tort law overview MIND MAP

    4. Key definitions [FINALISE AT END - ADD MORE (HAVE PROOFED THESE)]

    5. Key legislation

    1. Overview of negligence

    2. → Negligence overview MIND MAP

    3. Introduction to negligence

    4. → Introduction to negligence MIND MAP

    5. Establishing a duty of care

    6. → Establishing a duty of care MIND MAP

    7. Breach of duty

    8. → Breach of duty MIND MAP

    9. Causation

    10. → Causation MIND MAP

    11. Remoteness

    12. → Remoteness MIND MAP

    13. Loss

    14. → Loss MIND MAP

    15. Pure economic loss

    16. → Pure economic loss MIND MAP

    17. → Pure economic loss exceptions MIND MAP

    18. Pure psychiatric harm

    19. → Pure psychiatric harm MIND MAP

    20. PRACTISE MCQs: Negligence

    1. Overview of remedies

    2. → Remedies overview MIND MAP

    3. Introduction to remedies

    4. → Introduction to remedies MIND MAP

    5. Remedies for personal injury

    6. → Remedies for personal injury MIND MAP

    7. Remedies for death

    8. → Remedies for death MIND MAP

    9. PRACTICE MCQs: Remedies

    1. Overview of defences

    2. → Overview of defences MIND MAP

    3. Introduction to defences

    4. Consent (voluntary assumption of risk)

    5. → Consent MIND MAP

    6. Contributory negligence

    7. Illegality

    8. → Illegality MIND MAP

    9. Excluding liability

    10. → Excluding liability MIND MAP

    11. PRACTISE MCQs: Defences

    1. Overview of employer's liability

    2. → Overview of employers' liability MIND MAP

    3. Employer’s liability vs employers’ vicarious liability [JAMES]

    4. → Employers' liability vs vicarious liability MIND MAP

    5. Employers' common law duties

    6. → Employers' common law duties MIND MAP

    7. Psychological harm at work

    8. → Psychological harm at work MIND MAP

    9. Breach of employer's duty of care

    10. → Breach of employers' duty of care MIND MAP

    11. PRACTISE MCQs: Employer's liability

    1. Overview of vicarious liability

    2. → Overview of vicarious liability MIND MAP

    3. Introduction to vicarious liability

    4. Establishing vicarious liability

    5. → Establishing vicarious liability MIND MAP

    6. Employee liability

    7. → Employee liability MIND MAP

    8. PRACTICE MCQs: Vicarious liability

Business law

  • 91 lessons
  • 50 minutes of video content

Instructors

James Richardson

Co-founder & Lawyer

James is a highly experienced solicitor and author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells. After a few years in their Commercial Litigation and Insurance team, James moved to the City to work as an underwriter on M&A deals. James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he wrote or co-wrote 42 different books for law students across the spectrum of graduate and postgraduate law courses. He now is Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at a motor insurtech scaleup called Cuvva, which he joined as first in-house counsel shortly after their Series A fundraise.

Jake Schogger

Co-founder & Lawyer

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy. He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also worked extensively as a career coach, and continues to deliver employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK. Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

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