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other statutory dues related to the vessel; (e) claims based on tort arising out of loss or damage caused by the operation of the vessel

breach of an existing contract is a fundamental requirement for the tort of inducement. The learned Senior Counsel has relied upon Bullen & Leake ... Furthermore, it is an established position that there is no "tort of wrongfully inducing a person not to enter into a contract

liability in private law for payment of compensation in an action on tort. It may be mentioned straightaway that award of compensation in a proceeding ... available as a defence in private law in an action based on tort. This is a distinction between the two remedies to be borne

composite and contributory negligence, as dealt with in Winfield and Jolowicz on Tort (Chapter 21) (15th Edition, 1998) and the same is extracted hereunder ... claimant to recover the entire compensation, from one of the joint tort feasors, particularly when, in the accident occurred due to the composite negligence

that the plaintiff has made the claim under the Law of Torts; (iv) under the Law of Contract, the plaintiff has only sought the relief ... recorded in writing, there could be no claim under the Law of Torts. 8. Had the plaintiff acting on the said representations joined the employment

award of damages/compensation has its roots in the Law of Torts. This Court has, therefore, consistently taken the view that remedy of writ ... such negligence could invite the principle of concept of “Constitu- tional tort”. That apart, the State Government has specifi- cally accepted before the National Human

Court of the learned City Civil Judge, Ahmedabad for damages in torts  for   an   alleged   act   of   negligent   firing   resulting   into   the   death ... regards negligence   and/or    non­justification    for   the firing.    If the tort feasor  who is not   merely  a  proper party, but  a  necessary party

situation, petitioner should be relegated to ordinary civil courts to seek his tort law remedy. The Court, where the infringement of the fundamental right ... observed that the public law demand, as distinct from the private law tort remedy, is that crime victims be given compensation even

entitled to recover the entire compensation from any of the joint tort feasors and as such the legal representative of the deceased including appellant / claimant ... other persons is entitled to sue both or anyone of the joint tort feasors and to recover the entire compensation as liability of joint tort

ordinary process of recovery of damages by recourse to an action in tort. In the present case, on the finding reached, it is a clear ... Constitution, in addition to the private law remedy under the Law of Torts, was evolved in the last two and half decades