Introduction to Law: cram pack

An actor withdraws from a TV film and the company cannot prove what profit the film would have made. It may claim:

1. AIts wasted expenditure, including costs incurred before the contract
2. BOnly nominal damages of a small sum
3. CPunitive damages to deter the actor
4. DIts estimated profits from the film, even if they are purely speculative

A seller agreed to ship goods from Sudan to Hamburg. The Suez Canal was closed, so the ship had to go round the Cape of Good Hope, a much longer route. In Tsakiroglou v Noblee Thorl:

1. AThe contract was frustrated, as shipping via the usual Suez route had become impossible
2. BThe contract was void from the start
3. CThe contract was not frustrated, as the longer route was not fundamentally different
4. DThe buyer had to pay the extra freight costs

A man bangs trays and shouts every time his neighbour, a music teacher, gives lessons, purely to annoy her. In Christie v Davey, the court held:

1. AIntention is irrelevant in nuisance, so his motive could not affect the claim
2. BMusic lessons are themselves a nuisance
3. COnly the police could deal with the noise
4. DHis malice made the noise an unreasonable use of land and a nuisance

An internal auditor with a grudge against his employer leaks staff payroll data online. In WM Morrison Supermarkets v Various Claimants (2020), the Supreme Court held the employer:

1. ALiable only to staff whose data was used for fraud
2. BVicariously liable, as he had access to the data through his job
3. CNot vicariously liable, as he was pursuing a personal vendetta
4. DVicariously liable, as data breaches are strict liability

In Dudgeon v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that criminalising consensual homosexual acts between adult men in Northern Ireland:

1. AWas outside the scope of the Convention
2. BWas justified under Article 8(2) as necessary to protect public morals
3. CViolated the right to respect for private life under Article 8
4. DViolated only the right to marry

A health authority moves a severely disabled woman into a care home after promising it would be her "home for life", then decides to close it. In R v North and East Devon HA, ex p Coughlan:

1. AFrustrating her substantive legitimate expectation was an abuse of power
2. BOnly a fair consultation was required
3. CThe promise was void because the authority had no statutory power to make it
4. DThe promise could be broken whenever policy changed

Involuntary intoxication can be a defence when:

1. AThe defendant chose to drink heavily
2. BThe offence is a strict liability offence
3. CIt meant the defendant lacked the required mens rea
4. DThe defendant was less inhibited but still formed intent

R v Gomez (1993) held that an appropriation in theft:

1. ACan occur even when the owner consents, if the consent was obtained by deception
2. BRequires that the act was not authorised by the owner, even if consent was obtained by fraud
3. CRequires a physical taking of the property
4. DOnly occurs when the defendant leaves the shop

The ordinary legislative procedure gives equal law-making roles to:

1. AThe European Parliament and the Council
2. BThe European Council and the Central Bank
3. CNational parliaments and the Commission
4. DThe Commission and the Court of Justice

Altmark Trans (2003) set conditions under which compensation for public service obligations:

1. AIs always prohibited state aid
2. BIs not state aid because it confers no advantage
3. CCan only be paid to state-owned companies
4. DMust be approved by the European Parliament