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Law Of Torts,Bachelor Of Law(Llb). Question Paper

Law Of Torts,Bachelor Of Law(Llb).

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Exam Year:2010

Instructions.
1.This is a group assignment.
2.The answer must not exceed 3,000 words.
3.Marks must be lost for plagiarism,which shall be deemed an act of cheating.
4.Marks may be lost for irrelevancy,illegibility or vagueness.
QUESTION.
"I have been struck by the contrast between the frequent niggardliness of verdicts in cases of personal injury and the invariable profuseness in claims for defamation.A soiled reputation seems assured of more liberal assuagement than a compound fracture."MacKinnon L. J. in Groom versus Crocker(1939)1 K.B. 194 at 231,quoted in Weir,T.(2004)A casebook on Tort,10th Edition,Sweet and Maxwell,London at page 523.
Discuss the above dictum in the context of the decision of and the authorities reviewed by the Kenyan Court of Appeal in Johnson Evan Gicheru versus Andrew Morton and Another(2005)eKLR. (20 Marks.)

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