1. See R. Mullender, ‘Negligence, Public Concerns And The Remedying Of Wrongs’ 56 Cambridge Law Journal 14, 16 (1997).
2. See also R. Mullender, ‘Negligence, The Pursuit Of Justice And The House Of Lords’ 4 Tort Law Review 9, 11 (1996). As used in the text, ‘prima facie’ means ‘defeasible’ or ‘overridable’.
3. For further discussion of this understanding of the term, see M.H. Kramer, In Defence of Legal Positivism: Law without Trimmings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 267, et seq.
4. For discussion of the view that pursuit of the ideal of corrective justice provides negligence law’s central purpose, see P. Cane, The Anatomy of Tort Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1997), p. 18.
5. Cf. J. Coleman, Risks And Wrongs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 198, where it is stated that ‘tort law’s core will of course be controversial’. See also Atiyah’s Accidents, Compensation and the Law (London: Butterworths, 1999, 6th edn, P. Cane (ed)), ch. 18, where the law of negligence is identified as having to do, inter alia, with compensation, distribution of losses, allocation of risks, deterrence, and vindication.