10 What Remedy Does and Should the Legal System Provide to Tort Form

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[Music] let's say I punch you in the face and you suffer a really bad injuries first of all that's kind of nasty of me and I probably will be going to jail for that but that's the criminal law and we won't be talking about that part today instead let's say you spend a few weeks in hospital and your hospital bill is just over the top I don't think you'd be too happy to pay for that yourself especially when it wasn't your fault and you're probably thinking something like hey he should pay for it because it was his fault that I got into this in the very first place and that's the idea behind tort law if I do something wrong and you suffer because of it I should pay you for all the damage that I caused and there's two parts to that idea what counts as something wrong and what counts as damage first let's talk about what's considered as wrong in the eyes of tort law well think of some obvious statements which start with you shouldn't you shouldn't cause physical harm to others you shouldn't