Negligent Misstatement; or Defamation. Injury to Reputation Can be covered by Torts of Defamation: Slander or Libel. Not Every Injury/Damage Has a Remedy in Tort One of the most common mistakes committed by students is to suppose that for every injury or damage suffered there is a remedy in the Law of Torts. Law of Tort is as much about liability as it is about non-liability. One of the functions of Lawyers is to determine when a remedy is available in Law of Tort and when the
9 injured will have no remedy in the Law of Tort. Law of Tort is an important area of the Law of Tanzania regulating the various activities and interests of members of the society. The rules and principles making up the Law of Tort in Tanzania today have been developed through the decisions of the Courts in England with very little statutory interference. It has been observed that as a result of the case law heritage the student of the law of torts is faced with a bewildering array of cases and rules, and often finds difficulty in deciding what information is relevant to a problem.[DAVID GREEN, p. i] As a student you should tread through these cases with caution. Not every case falling into your hands will be relevant. You should employ the rules you have learnt to decipher which cases will be binding, which cases will be persuasive and which will be of no consequence. Law of Tort as A Reflector of a Changing Society Arrangement of Topics in this Manual is historical. The arrangements will show you that Law of Torts has been developing and has in fact developed very slowly
