Introduction to Law: cram pack

A hotel guest sees an exclusion notice in her room only after booking and paying at reception. Under Olley v Marlborough Court Hotel, the notice is:

1. APart of the contract, because hotels may exclude liability
2. BPart of the contract, because she stayed in the room
3. CBinding from the second night onwards
4. DNot part of the contract, because it came after formation

An actress is wrongly denied the chance to take part in the final stage of a competition in which some finalists would win prizes. In Chaplin v Hicks:

1. AShe could recover the full value of a prize
2. BShe could recover nothing, because her loss was uncertain
3. CShe could recover damages for the loss of a chance
4. DShe could recover only her travel expenses

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

A prisoner known to be a suicide risk kills himself in a police cell after officers leave the door hatch open. In Reeves v Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the House of Lords held:

1. AHis deliberate act did not break the chain, because it was the very thing the duty aimed to prevent
2. BThe claim failed because of illegality
3. CThe police were not liable, because a sane adult's suicide is always a voluntary act breaking the chain
4. DHis deliberate act broke the chain of causation

Constitutional conventions are:

1. AWritten rules found in statutes that courts enforce like any other law
2. BNon-legal rules of political practice that are regarded as binding
3. CInternational treaties about the constitution
4. DMeetings held to write a new constitution

Under Osman v UK, a state breaches its positive obligation under Article 2 to protect a person from a third party if the authorities:

1. ADid not provide round-the-clock police protection for every person who had reported any threat against them
2. BKnew or ought to have known of a real and immediate risk to life, and failed to take reasonable measures
3. CFailed to prevent any crime in their area
4. DFailed to convict the person who later killed the victim

D attacks someone while sleepwalking. Following R v Burgess, the correct defence is:

1. ANon-insane automatism, because sleep is natural
2. BSelf-defence, because D was dreaming of an attack
3. CInvoluntary intoxication, because D was not aware
4. DInsanity, because sleepwalking was caused by an internal factor

In R v Malcherek and Steel (1981), doctors switched off life-support machines after diagnosing brain death. The court held:

1. AThe doctors became the legal cause of death by deliberately switching off the machines
2. BThe victims died of natural causes in law
3. CSwitching off did not break the chain; the original assailants caused the deaths
4. DThe defendants were guilty only of attempted murder

Which of these can NOT be used to justify a restriction on imports under Article 36 TFEU?

1. AProtection of human health
2. BProtection of industrial and commercial property
3. CPublic morality
4. DProtecting the national economy from competition

In Dano (2014), the Court held that an economically inactive EU national with no sufficient resources:

1. AHad to be granted permanent residence after one year
2. BHad an absolute right to social assistance on the same terms as nationals, by virtue of Union citizenship alone
3. CCould be expelled automatically without any assessment
4. DCould be refused social assistance because she did not meet the residence conditions of Directive 2004/38