In a recent article, Prof. Izhak Englard reviewed the salient developments in tort law over the last decade. These developments are:
(a) Deciding the question of the internal structure of the Civil Wrongs Ordinance as regards the relationship between the general and the specific torts.
(b) Extension of tortious liability for negligence, and the crystallization of the conceptual framework of that tort.
(c) Expanding the scope of the tort of breach of a statutory duty by allowing the unimpeded inclusion of statutory duties within the scope of the Civil Wrongs Ordinance.
(d) Removal of the umbrella erected by the case law in order to shield the State and its agencies from liability for negligence and the breach of a statutory duty, and the equation of the position of the State to that of other tortfeasors.