...a welcome contribution. With its careful analysis and clear prose, the book warrants our serious attention.

Graeme Austin, New Zealand Law Journal

...this book is a gem. It is beautifully clear in its exposition, and thorough in its examination of the area which has long needed such a look. Academic tort lawyers will love it and practitioners will find it extremely useful in clarifying their approach to arguing defences. It is worth having in your library.

Prue Vines, Australian Civil Liability

... a highly original and insightful analysis into the law of defences to torts as a whole [that] is certainly worthwhile reading.

James Plunkett, Australian Law Journal

... an excellent, thought-provoking and rigorously analytical book, which is clearly written and meticulously researched.

Paul Mitchell, Sydney Law Review

...Goudkamp's book is the first scholarly study of tort law defences as a whole, and as such is a major addition to the scholarship of tort law. The range of the author's scholarship is impressive, not only in its scale, in that it has extended over the whole field of the law of torts, but also jurisdictionally, and in the use he makes of criminal law scholarship about defences – which may be a first for torts scholars. There are passages which are heavy on theory ... which are particularly telling in showing the author's mastery of such areas. The work as a whole has carved out a new area in tort law research and is a most impressive contribution to the scholarly literature on this subject.

Peter Handford, Torts Law Journal

... Tort Law Defences ... is ... a pioneering work. It challenges us to think harder about doctrines which are extremely important, both on a theoretical and a practical level.

Eric Descheemaeker, The Modern Law Review