Legal research guide: Torts: Overview
Don't Be Negligent - Find Out About Torts
What is Torts Law?
"A civil wrong distinguished from the law of contract, the law of restitution, and the criminal law. A tort is a breach of a duty, potentially owed to the whole world, imposed by law ... Torts serve to protect a person's interest in his or her bodily security, tangible property, financial resources, or reputation. Interference with one of these interests is redressable by an action for compensation, usually in the form of unliquidated damages. The law of torts aims to restore the injured person to the position he or she was in before the tort was committed ...".
Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary (LexisNexis AU)
Torts & Personal Injury Law (CCH Intelliconnect)
One of the key resources for Torts is Torts & Personal Injury Law in CCH IntelliConnect.
Torts & Personal Injury Law contains Commentary, Cases and Legislation relevant to Tort law.
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Dictionaries & Encyclopaedia
- Encyclopaedic Australian legal dictionaryOnline: Lexis Advance
- Halsbury's laws of Australia.Lexis Advance
- The Laws of AustraliaWestlaw AU
Other Torts Resources
- Review of the Law of Negligence2002 report (Australia)
- Lexis Advance - TortsU.S. Research. Click on the Practice Area or Industry and then click Torts link
- Thomson Reuters Westlaw - Tort LawUS content. Go to Secondary Sources > Texts and Treatises > Torts and Personal Injury Texts and Treatises
- Lawbore Tort Links - City Law School (UK)Includes web links & articles
- Australian defamation law and practiceCommentary, case law and legislation on defamation, damages and remedies in Australian jurisdictions.
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