Rashanda Michelle Mc Kenna

Tort law on both sides of the Atlantic asks the same basic question: when should one person have to compensate another for harm? The US and UK answer that question through shared common law roots, but they now differ in structure, remedies, litigation culture, and constitutional limits. This post compares tort Law, us Tort Law, uk tort Law, English Tort law through core principles and leading cases. It focuses mainly on the United States and on England and Wales, because the UK has separate...

Someone leaves a banana peel on a shop floor. Someone else slips, falls, and breaks a wrist. Funny in a cartoon. Expensive in real life. That’s where tort law steps in. Tort law deals with civil wrongs. One person harms another, and the legal system asks a practical question: who should pay for the loss? Sometimes the harm is deliberate. Sometimes it’s careless. Sometimes nobody meant to hurt anyone, but the activity was risky enough that the law still puts responsibility on someone. This...

Tort law is where everyday mistakes become legal problems. A snail in a bottle. A doctor who misses a diagnosis. A careless driver. A slippery factory floor. English courts have used cases like these to build the rules of negligence, one brick at a time. This guide explains the key elements of English Tort Law in plain English: duty of care, breach of duty, causation, and damages. It also shows how real cases fit together, because learning tort without cases is like learning football by...