Nicholas McBride

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

10 West Road

Cambridge, CB3 9DZ

United Kingdom

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Scholarly Papers (26)

1.

Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2015] UKSC 2

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 21/2015
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2015
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Tort, negligence, public bodies, omissions, UK Supreme Court, duty of care

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Rape and Consent

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Sep 2014
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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rape, consent, crime, criminal law

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Michael and the Future of Tort Law

(2016) 32 Journal of Professional Negligence 14, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 36/2017
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2017
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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private law, negligence, omissions, public authority liability, human rights, police liability

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Rights and the Basis of Tort Law

Nolan and Roberton (eds), Rights and Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2011)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Aug 2014
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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tort, tort law, compensation, rights, jurisprudence

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'A Straightforward Case of Nuisance': A Note on Fearn v Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 14/2023
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 14 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2023
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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private nuisance, overlooking, interference with land, common and ordinary use, right to a view, privacy, economic torts

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The Defence of Illegality: Not a Principle of Justice?

Green & Bogg (eds), Illegality After Patel v Mirza (2018), University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 67/2018
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2018
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Remedies, Defences, Illegality, Ex Turpi Causa, Patel v Mirza, Justice, Human Rights

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The Future of Clean Hands

Davies, Douglas and Goudkamp (eds), Defences in Equity, 2018, ISBN: 9781509921010, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 65/2018
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2018
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Equity, Remedies, Defences, Clean Hands, Illegality

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Two Recent Cases on Liability for Omissions in Negligence

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 6/2023
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2023
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Tort, negligence, omissions, Michael, social services, police

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The Nature of Evil

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 5/2023
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2023
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Evil, human flourishing, rule of law, legal validity

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Ill Fares the Land: Has COVID-19 Killed the Principle of Legality?

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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COVID-19, coronavirus, public law, judicial review, principle of legality, rule of law, proportionality, lockdowns, vaccine passports, vaccine mandates, Liversidge, Korematsu, Miller 2, Dolan

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Tort Law and Human Flourishing

Pitel, Neyers and Chamberlain (eds), Tort Law: Challenging Orthodoxy (Hart Publishing, 2013), University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 55/2014
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2014
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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tort, tort law, negligence, nuisance, jurisprudence, rights, human flourishing, Finnis

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Suing for the Loss of the Right to Sue: Why Wright is Wrong

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 4/2012
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2013
Sandy Steel and Nicholas McBride
University of Oxford and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Torts, Causation

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Vindicatio - The Missing Remedy?

(2016) 28 Singapore Academic Law Journal 1052, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 35/2017
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 05 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2017
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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vindicatio, property, private law, conversion, detinue, strict liability, legal history. common law

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Stephen A Smith on Duties and Liabilities

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 62/2015
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2015
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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duties, liabilities, obligations, private law, contract, tort, restitution, unjust enrichment, Steve Smith, Peter Birks

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Patel v Mirza: Structured Discretion or Range of Factors?

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 66/2018
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2018
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Remedies, defences, illegality, discretion, Patel v Mirza

16.

The Cost and Value of Personal Injury Law

Day and Worthington (eds), Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court (Hart Publishing, 2020)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Feb 2021
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Tort law, personal injury law, Lord Sumption, cost benefit analysis, philosophical foundations of tort law

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Restitution for Wrongs

Charles Mitchell and William Swadling (eds), The Restament Third: Restitution and Unjust Enrichment - Critical and Comparative Essays (Hart Publishing, 2013), University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 23/2015
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2015
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Restitution, unjust enrichment, restitution for wrongs, tort, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, disgorgement, account of profits, licence fee damages, slayer rule, deterrence

18.

Are There Any Moral Duties?

Private Law and Practical Reason: Essays on John Gardner's Private Law Theory (Harris Psarras & Sandy Steel eds, 2022)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Feb 2022
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Private law, John Gardner, moral duty, private law duty, Kant, Bentham, human flourishing, evil, justice, rape, Sophie's Choice, modernity

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Talkin' 'Bout My Generation: A Review of Stapleton, Three Essays on Torts

(2021) 37 PN 200
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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tort, negligence, causation, grand theories, Kant, pure economic loss, legal scholarship, judges

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Between Chaos and Cosmos: Tony Weir in the Cambridge Law Journal

(2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal s107
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Nov 2021
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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tort, contract, negligence, economic torts, duty of care, insurance, lumper, splitter, negative capability

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Private Law Book Reviews 2015 - 2020

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Feb 2021
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Private Law, Tort, Restitution, Unjust Enrichment, Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law, Kant, causation, duty of care, negligence

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Legal Obligations to the Dead

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Apr 2020
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Private law; obligations; tort; death; defamation; sacrifice; human flourishing

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Tort Law and Criminal Law in an Age of Austerity

Matthew Dyson (ed), Unravelling Tort and Crime (Cambridge University Press, 2014), University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 22/2015
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2015
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Tort law, criminal law, legal aid, legal rights, economic crisis, social collapse, public expenditure, evil, Kantian theories of law, simplification of law

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'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace'? The Inevitable Conflict between Contract Law and Free Speech in Cyberspace

Davies and Raczynska, Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms (Hart Publishing, 2020)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Feb 2021
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Contract law, freedom of speech, Internet, gnosticism, Oliver Wendell Holmes, liberalism, First Amendment

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Equality, Flourishing, and the Existence of Legal Absolutes

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 34/2017
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 05 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2017
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Human flourishing, private law, obligations, human rights, Amanda Perreau-Saussine, utilitarianism, inequality, truth

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Duties of Care-Do They Really Exist?

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 24, pp. 417-441, 2004
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Nicholas McBride
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

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