Introduction to Law: cram pack

A holiday company provides a holiday far below the promised standard. Can the customer recover damages for disappointment?

1. AYes, because the contract's purpose was to provide enjoyment
2. BOnly if the company acted dishonestly
3. COnly if the customer suffered a physical injury
4. DNo, because mental distress is never recoverable in contract

A builder agrees to finish work for an agreed price, then demands more money. The client pays to avoid delay and gets a practical benefit. In English law (Williams v Roffey), the promise to pay more may be:

1. AUnenforceable, because performing an existing contractual duty can never be good consideration
2. BA criminal offence
3. CEnforceable only if made in writing
4. DEnforceable, because the practical benefit can be consideration if there is no duress

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

A surveyor values a modest house for a mortgage lender, knowing the buyer will rely on it. The report is negligent and contains a disclaimer. In Smith v Eric S Bush, the House of Lords held:

1. AThe surveyor owed a duty to the buyer, and the disclaimer failed the reasonableness test
2. BThe lender alone could sue the surveyor
3. CThe surveyor owed no duty, because the buyer was not the client who commissioned the report
4. DThe disclaimer excluded all liability to the buyer

Article 2 of the ECHR (right to life) imposes on states a positive obligation to:

1. AGuarantee free housing and healthcare to everyone within their territory
2. BTake appropriate steps to safeguard lives within their jurisdiction
3. CGuarantee that no citizen ever dies
4. DAbolish all police forces

In Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke, the Privy Council held that the UK Parliament could still legislate for Southern Rhodesia because:

1. ARhodesia had become fully independent
2. BThe convention was legally binding but had been waived by Rhodesia
3. CRhodesia had consented to the legislation
4. DA convention that it would not do so did not limit its legal power

Involuntary intoxication can be a defence when:

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

In R v Walkington (1979), D went behind a shop counter and opened a till. This was burglary because:

1. AEntering a part of a building as a trespasser is enough
2. BD was carrying a weapon at the time
3. CShops are treated as dwellings in law
4. DThe till contained money at the time

Under the subsidiarity protocol, a "yellow card" is triggered when reasoned opinions represent at least:

1. AA simple majority of the votes of the Members of the European Parliament
2. BOne third of the votes allocated to national parliaments
3. CTwo member state governments
4. DAll national parliaments

EU citizenship case law (Zambrano) established that a third-country national parent of a child who is an EU citizen may have a right of residence when:

1. AThe parent has lived lawfully in the child's member state for at least five years before applying for residence
2. BThe parent pays a residence fee
3. CThe child is older than 18
4. DRefusal would deprive the child of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of EU citizenship rights