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OLW 204 Law of Tort-Part I,AGGREY WAKILI

one's privacy. The conduct which produced an injury or loss in some cases will 
have been deliberate, and in others, careless, or merely accidental. Should the 
legal system respond? Should the victim have any entitlement to 
compensation? And if so, at what level? Who should provide it? Should the 
actor who caused the injury be accountable for it? These are the essential 


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questions the Law of Torts seeks to address.
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Today Law of Tort hovers over every activity of modern society. Driver of every 
car, producers of goods and services, those whose business is to repair, 
doctors, lawyers, architects and builders, to mention but a few, are all potential 
plaintiffs and defendants in tort action. Potential Tort liability is part and parcel 
of human life and activity. In every day life human activity is as numerous as 
there are human beings. During such activities there are bound to be losses or 
injuries of many kinds.
 
The purpose of Law of Torts is to adjust these losses and afford compensation 
for injuries. Interests vindicated by Law of Torts are very many. Course Outline 
provides you with an organised way of how the Law of Torts vindicates the 
various interests in a society. 
 
Some of the interests which Law of Tort seeks to vindicate include: 
(I) 
Interests in Personal Security [Torts of Assault, Battery, False 
Imprisonment and Negligence]; 
(II) 
Interests in Reputation and Dignity [Libel, slander]; 
 
(III) 
Interests in Property [Trespass, Negligence, Nuisance, Strict Liability]; 

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