This SQE1 revision guide covers the requirements of the SRA SQE1 2026 specification for tort law, which will be examined within the FLK1 assessments in January and July 2027. Designed specifically to help you prepare for the SQE1 assessment, it provides a clear, concise and highly focused overview of the subject.

The book is clearly structured around the SRA specification and focuses only on the content you need to revise for the SQE1 assessment. It provides plenty of opportunities to test your functioning legal knowledge as defined in the SQE1 syllabus. Each chapter includes five practice questions, demonstrating how to apply the relevant legal principles to SQE-style single best answer multiple-choice questions.

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SQE Tort Law is available as a print book, ebook and audiobook, and is suitable whether you are following an SQE preparation course, a self-study route, or preparing to retake the SQE1 assessment.

"Revise SQE Tort Law 2027" was written by Linda Chadderton.

Linda Chadderton is a lecturer in law on the undergraduate LL.B. and postgraduate Legal Practice Course at UCLAN, and a solicitor and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As a practicing solicitor she specialised in defendant litigation. She teaches tort law, litigation, personal injury, clinical negligence and professional skills. Her experience of working in the legal profession for 20 years and subsequently teaching the next generation of legal professionals means she is ideally placed to  understand the issues and application involved in preparing for the SQE. 

Negligence: Duty of Care and Breach

Negligence: Causation, Remoteness and Loss

Negligence: Remedies, Economic Loss and Psychiatric Harm

Defences

Vicarious Liability and Employers' Liability

Occupiers' Liability

Product Liability

Nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher