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OLW 204 Law of Tort-Part I,AGGREY WAKILI

from rural-based production to industrially based activities. It was the case of 
DONOGHUE V. STEVENSON [1932] AC 562 which finally and clearly spelt the 
existence of a distinct Tort of Negligence. Freed from the shackles of "privity of 
contract" by DONOGHUE V. STEVENSON [1932] AC 562 (HL), and operating in 
a society where injuries frequently are caused by carelessness and only rarely 
by deliberate acts of wrongdoing, negligence claims account for the vast 
majority of tort action: [KLAR, Lewis N., Tort Law, Thomson Professional 
Publishing Canada, 1991]. 
 
Today the cause of action in negligence dominates the law of torts, both in 
terms of number of claims, and theoretical importance. Unlike other torts which 
protect certain well-defined interests from equally well-defined invasions, the 
action in negligence, at least as it is generally interpreted and applied, has 
relatively few rigid impediments to continued expansion. Development and 
expansion of the Tort of Negligence to cover new factual situations and 
problems has been phenomenal. Tort of Negligence has proven to be most 
dynamic and prolific. Negligence has expanded to cover more scenarios today 
than in 1932: 
 
".. the invention of the Reasonable Man, probably the 
outstanding feature of the common law, has kept the law of 
torts, particularly the tort of negligence, an open ended 
concept. This makes the tort of negligence responsive to 
developing and changing situations.." [HUARAKA, T., page 


104 
135] 
 
It is important to observe that though the Tort of Negligence officially came into 

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