scholars as: WINFIELD, COURTNEY STANHOPPE KENNY, TUNGURU HUARAKA, GILBERT KODILINYE, JOHN FLEMING, W. V. H. ROGERS and many others. Bear in mind that this Study Manual does not break a virgin ground of knowledge. Law of Tort is a well trodden subject. I am sure you will face difficulties in obtaining ready access to Law Reports and Law Textbooks. This fact will not diminish importance of you having your own personal copies of Legal Dictionaries, basic Textbooks, Casebooks and leading Articles on the Law of Torts. Like a potential carpenter, you should assemble
11 and get used to your tools of trade early. Law libraries will remain to be places where you will build and nurture your "lawyer-killer-instinct". Your duty to move between bookshelves to hunt, identify and pick relevant readings in the libraries cannot be delegated however busy your work schedules may be. You cannot rely on the judgement of your delegate to collect relevant readings for you. Cases illustrated in this Study Manual have been highly abridged and restricted to essential facts and salient arguments. You should make it your duty to read full versions of all cases referred to not only in this Manual but also in your Course Outline. You should track down all the texts referred to in the footnotes and endnotes of your readings. On this score you should always read as many sources on a point as possible. For example, in order to have a firmer grasp of a concept like "DUTY OF CARE" in Negligence you should not base your understanding of the concept on only the nearest textbook. Look up the concept in Law Dictionaries and encyclopedia, survey the historical development of the
