Introduction to Law: cram pack

A buyer is told false figures about a business and is offered documents that would reveal the truth, but does not read them. Under Redgrave v Hurd:

1. AThe buyer can still rely on the misrepresentation
2. BThe buyer loses all remedies by failing to check
3. CThe misrepresentation becomes a term
4. DThe buyer can claim only half the loss

A pays B money to bet on shares using insider information, which is illegal. The bet never happens and A wants the money back. In Patel v Mirza, the Supreme Court held:

1. AA could recover the money, applying a policy-based approach to illegality
2. BThe money passed to the state as illegal proceeds
3. CA could recover only half the money
4. DA could not recover, because no claim can be founded on an illegal agreement

A five-year-old falls into a trench on open land while playing without an adult. In Phipps v Rochester Corporation, the occupier was:

1. ALiable, because the trench was not fenced
2. BNot liable, because it could expect parents to supervise very young children
3. CNot liable, because the child was a trespasser
4. DLiable, because young children must be protected from every danger on the land

A council's water pipe to a block of flats leaks and causes an embankment to collapse, exposing a gas main. In Transco v Stockport MBC, the House of Lords held:

1. AThere was no Rylands liability, because supplying water by pipe was not a non-natural use
2. BThe council was strictly liable for all escaping water
3. CRylands v Fletcher was abolished in English law
4. DThe council was liable in negligence for the leak

In Soering v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that extraditing a man to the US to face a possible death sentence would breach Article 3 because:

1. AHe would not receive a fair trial
2. BOf the extreme conditions and long wait on death row
3. CThe death penalty itself always amounts to torture under Article 3
4. DThe US is not a party to the Convention

After a court makes a declaration of incompatibility, section 10 of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 allows a minister to:

1. AOverrule the court's declaration
2. BRefer the case directly to Strasbourg
3. CSuspend the Convention right in question
4. DAmend the incompatible legislation by a remedial order

D takes his own car from a garage without paying for repairs. Following R v Turner (No 2), D can be guilty of theft because:

1. AD intended to return the car later
2. BProperty belongs to anyone who has possession or control of it
3. COwners who take back their own property are always acting dishonestly
4. DThe car was worth more after the repairs

In R v Hinks (2000), the House of Lords held that:

1. ACivil law always decides criminal liability for theft
2. BA valid gift can never be theft because full ownership passes to the recipient at once
3. COnly shop thefts involve appropriation
4. DReceiving a valid gift can be an appropriation, so it can be theft if dishonest

Article 34 TFEU prohibits:

1. ACartels between undertakings
2. BState aid to companies
3. CQuantitative restrictions on imports and measures having equivalent effect between member states
4. DDiscrimination based on nationality in employment and the provision of services between member states

In Defrenne v Sabena (No 2), the Court held that the principle of equal pay for men and women (now Article 157 TFEU):

1. AApplies only to public employers
2. BHas both vertical and horizontal direct effect
3. CHas no direct effect
4. DRequires a directive before it can be applied