Introduction to Law: cram pack

Under EU consumer law, a consumer who buys online usually has the right to withdraw within:

1. A30 days, only if the goods are defective
2. BNo time, because online sales are final
3. C14 days without giving a reason
4. D3 days, only with a reason

A seller mistakenly offers hare skins at a price per pound instead of per piece. The buyer knew that prices were always quoted per piece. In Hartog v Colin and Shields:

1. AThe court rewrote the price to per piece
2. BThere was no contract, as the buyer knew of the mistake
3. CThe contract was voidable at the buyer's option
4. DThere was a binding contract at the stated price

Workmen leave an open manhole with paraffin lamps. A boy knocks a lamp in, causing an unexpected explosion and burns. In Hughes v Lord Advocate, the defendants were:

1. ANot liable, because the explosion was unforeseeable
2. BLiable, because burns were a foreseeable type of harm
3. CNot liable, because the boy was a trespasser
4. DLiable only for half of the damage

After an accident in a tunnel, a police inspector negligently orders an officer to ride back against the traffic, and the officer is hit. In Knightley v Johns, the original negligent driver was:

1. ALiable for all consequences, because the officer's injury was a foreseeable result of the crash
2. BNot liable for the officer's injury, because the inspector's negligence broke the chain
3. CLiable for half, shared with the inspector
4. DLiable, because rescuers are foreseeable

Under the Human Rights Act 1998, a private body with some "functions of a public nature" is:

1. ABound by the Act in everything it does
2. BBound by the Act only if it receives most of its funding from the state
3. CBound by the Act for its public functions, but not for private acts
4. DNever bound by the Act

Dicey argued that in England individual liberties were mainly protected by:

1. AA specialised constitutional court
2. BA written bill of rights with higher status
3. CThe personal decisions of the monarch
4. DThe ordinary courts applying the common law

D, a diabetic, takes insulin, skips food, becomes hypoglycaemic and hits V without knowing what he is doing. D may rely on:

1. ADuress of circumstances, because D was ill
2. BNon-insane automatism, because an external factor caused the episode
3. CDiminished responsibility, because harm was caused
4. DInsanity, because diabetes is a disease affecting the functioning of the mind

In "Thabo Meli v R", the defendants beat the victim, believed him dead and threw him off a cliff, where he died of exposure. The court held:

1. AThe series of acts formed one transaction, so actus reus and mens rea coincided
2. BThe defendants were guilty only of attempted murder
3. CThe victim's death was not caused by the defendants
4. DThere was no murder because the mens rea existed only before the act that actually caused death

Costa v ENEL (1964) established:

1. AThe direct effect of regulations
2. BThe principle of subsidiarity
3. CState liability for breaches of EU law
4. DThe supremacy (primacy) of EU law over national law

In Säger v Dennemeyer (1991), the Court held that Article 56 TFEU requires the abolition of:

1. AAny restriction, even if non-discriminatory, liable to prohibit or impede the services of a provider from another member state
2. BOnly rules that openly discriminate on grounds of nationality
3. CAll national licensing requirements, without exception, even where they protect service recipients and are applied proportionately
4. DOnly rules adopted after the provider has arrived