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Sir Peter North, OCCUPIERS’ LIABILITY Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com ), 2014. xxxv + 263 pp. ISBN 9780199680641. £80.

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AuthorGordon Cameron
DOI10.3366/elr.2015.0287
Published date01 May 2015
Date01 May 2015
Pages293-294

It must be unusual for forty three years to elapse between editions, yet this is the second edition of a work first published in 1971. Significant changes in this field were made by statute in 1972 and 1984 and, of course, forty three years of case law has accumulated, rendering the preparation needed for this new edition something rather more than an update. Written, as it has been, from retirement following a highly distinguished career, one can speculate on whether the author's return to the work is the fulfilment of a long held ambition to be realised when time finally allowed. Whatever the motivation behind its production, it is a welcome addition to private law literature.

This is, of course, an English law text, albeit one in which Scottish, Northern Irish, and Commonwealth case law is well represented. In England, as in Scotland, the law is on a statutory footing, which nevertheless depends on the common law for certain elements, for example, determining (in both jurisdictions) the occupier and (in England) the persons to whom a duty is owed. The status of occupiers’ liability as a specialist branch of liability for negligence is explained by the relatively late development of general principles...

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