This appeal has to do with the rules for the assumption and exercise of jurisdiction in the context of multijurisdictional defamation claims. While these types of claims are not new, the exponential increase in multijurisdictional publications over the Internet...
TORTS
“Civil rights and interests” used in this Law shall include the right to life, the right to health, the right to name, the right to reputation, the right to honor, right to self image, right of privacy, marital autonomy,...
76. The word “wrong” in ordinary legal language means and signifies “privation of right’’. An act is wrongful if it infringes the legal right of another, and “actionable” means nothing else than that it affords grounds for action in...
A tort is also often referred to as “an actionable wrong” and the two expressions have been synonymously used by eminent writers including Sir Fredriek Pollock and Professor Burdick of America, who has designated his well-known book on the...
But the philosophical analysis of every wrong begins by determining what the defendant has actually chosen, that is to say, what his voluntary act or conduct has been, and what consequences he has actually contemplated as flowing from them,...
The distinction between the functions of court and jury does not come in question until the parties differ as to the standard of conduct. Negligence, like ownership, is a complex conception. Just as the latter imports the existence of...
The question is whether the manufacturer of an article of drink sold by him to a distributor, in circumstances which prevent the distributor or the ultimate purchaser or consumer from discovering by inspection any defect, is under any legal...
f a person brings, or accumulates, on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril. If it does escape, and cause damage, he is responsible, however careful...
Any person who unlawfully causes loss or damage to another, whether wilfully or negligently, is obliged to provide compensation.
Supreme Court and the High Courts, being the protectors of the civil liberties of the citizen, have not only the power and jurisdiction but also an obligation to grant relief in exercise of its jurisdiction under Articles 32 and...
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