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Purposes of the Law of Tort



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OLW 204 Law of Tort-Part I,AGGREY WAKILI

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 


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that of a densely packed forest area, where trees of 
different sizes and species grow together with many sorts 
of vegetation. This area would be seen to run into other 

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