jurisdiction UK (England and Wales), references (case law and statutory provisions), tort law

• Analyse the aims of tortious liability
• Analyse main examples of torts, their essential components, defences and remedies
• Appraise the rules for prevention of harassment and intentional harms
• Assess when a duty of care will be imposed (from the employer to the employees)
• Assess the consequences of third parties' interventions
• Illustrate circumstances when psychiatric harm can be compensated
• Analyse the factors that may render damages 'too remote'
• Analyse the policy reasons behind limitations of recovery for psychiatric harms
• Assess the application of public policy in limiting the scope of duty of care