ABSTRACT
We are used to the law of torts dealing with interference that has caused loss or damage to property or physical injury. We have already seen from the law on pure economic loss that the courts are less willing to become involved where economic loss is concerned (see Chapter 6.2). One of the traditional reasons given for this was that in character such loss was more appropriately compensated in the law of contract. However, there are a number of torts that can be loosely grouped together and which are concerned with interference with a person’s economic interests. They may represent an interference with a person’s livelihood and include deceit and malicious falsehood and also can include passing off and a range of other specific ways of interfering with a person’s trade.
