LAW OF TORT

Law of Tort

Law of Tort

Introduction

This paper intends to discuss the case of Alice who is a school teacher in relation with the underlying and significant law of tort. Alice was able to fulfill her ambition when her class wrote a letter to the 'Dream Genie' television program asking if she could make a parachute jump on live television. Unfortunately, Alice's treat went sadly wrong when, owing solely to negligence of Shawn, the jump organizer, Alice's parachute failed to operate properly so that she was unable to avoid the turning rotor blades of a helicopter which was waiting to take off. Alice was very severely injured and died almost immediately.

Bob, the pilot of the helicopter, and his passenger Carol (neither of whom was related to Alice) were horrified by the sound of the accident and by the sight of Alice's blood spattering the glass cockpit of the helicopter. Bob blamed himself for the accident, and both suffered reactive depression. Alice's sister, Diane who had lived in the United States for the previous 10 years, was staying with her family in England for a month while she recuperated from a recent nervous breakdown. She saw the live coverage on television and suffered a relapse as a result. The purpose of this paper is to advise Bob, Carol and Diane about their ability to recover damages.

Discussion

Laws are made in order to restrict the criminal doings. Tort laws are not enforced by police. Tort law basically deals with civilian actions being taken by one citizen against another. The main remedy is considered damages or money as compensation provided by the tort laws. The case of Alice makes it clearly evident that the effected are clearly able to claim damages. This can be referred to the provisions of Fatal Accidents Act 1976 suggests that the relatives of the victim must be provided with compensation money in order to adhere with the laws of tort and the protective features of people.

Family law and tort law were widely regarded (both in civil law and common law countries) as two distinct and separate legal provinces in the past decades. In brief, family law and tort law were not expected to interact, and indeed they did not interact.

Comparisons among various legal traditions have always provided a rich source of in-depth analysis in the theoretical stature of contemporary law. These comparisons have also generated far-reaching changes in many legal systems and endorsed elements imported in full or in part from other legal systems. There is a central axis of comparison between common law and civil law legal traditions. There is, however, an additional axis of comparison between contemporary legal traditions and Talmudic law that is of particular interest because it provides a broad basis for original legal literature. It presents confrontation not only between different systems of law but also contemporary Western and Jewish culture (Koziol & Steininger, 2009 Pp. 600-720).

I would, however, like to take the liberty of making another comment on the relation between ...