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1st B.C.L. 2000/2001 Compulsory Tort Essay "..[courts of justice should not] allow themselves, in the pursuit of perfectly complete remedies for all wrongful acts, to transgress the bounds, which our law, in a wise consciousness as I conceive its limited powers, has imposed upon itself, of redressing only the proximate and direct consequences of wrongful acts." Coleridge J., Lumley v. Gye (1853) 2 E. & B. 216 at 252. Keith Ó Connachtáin Student No. 99461323 12/03/01 The tort of negligence presents an awkward dialectic. On the one hand, there is the ultimate desire to compensate each and every deserving claim presented to the courts by plaintiffs who have suffered genuine injury or damage: a truly altruistic ideal. Yet, on the other hand, this is negated by the clear need to impose limits to avoid the greatly feared scenario of "liability in an indeterminate amount for an indeterminate time to an indeterminate class".1 When two such opposing forces...

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