Purposes of the Law of Tort The diversity of the interests protected by tort law and the types of conduct sanctioned by it make it unrealistic to generalise about the purposes of tort law. In Constitutional context, Law of Torts relates to the protection of the individual's property and civil rights and Law of Torts addresses some of the interests specifically protected by Bill of Rights provisions of the Constitution: READ Part III of Chapter ONE of the Constitution of United Republic of Tanzania, 1977 containing Basic Rights and Duties. Investigate to what extent Law of Torts enforces or otherwise touches some of the Rights and Freedoms mentioned in this Part of the Constitution. Tort serves different purposes depending foremost on the area under review, the type of injury and conduct and, to a lesser extent, the philosophy and attitude of the law maker. A very persuasive and exhaustive defence of the tort law system is found in a Report to the American Bar Association entitled: "Towards a Jurisprudence of Injury; The Continuing Creation of Substantive Justice in American Tort Law", 1984. The Report describes the pluralistic approach to tort law in the following way: "The most sensible approach is to regard tort law from a pluralistic viewpoint, viewing it as a multifaceted response to a very varied set of problems. If one sought a natural metaphor, it might not be that of one large tree, but rather
