Introduction to Law: cram pack

Police provide extra officers at a mine during a strike, beyond what their public duty requires, at the owner's request. The owner's promise to pay is:

1. AUnenforceable, because police protection can never be consideration for a promise
2. BVoid, because it is contrary to public policy
3. CEnforceable, because doing more than a public duty is consideration
4. DEnforceable only if approved by Parliament

An employment contract forbids the employee from working for any competitor anywhere in the world for 20 years after leaving. In English law this clause is most likely:

1. AEnforceable for the first five years only
2. BEnforceable if the employer is a large company
3. CUnenforceable, as an unreasonable restraint of trade
4. DEnforceable, because the employee agreed to it

A council leaves an abandoned boat on its land. Two boys jack it up to repair it, and it falls and injures one. In Jolley v Sutton LBC, the council was:

1. ANot liable, because the boys' exact actions were unforeseeable
2. BLiable, because the broad type of accident was foreseeable
3. CLiable only to the boy who used the jack
4. DNot liable, because repairs are not play

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

After Burmah Oil v Lord Advocate held that compensation was due for property destroyed during the war, Parliament passed the War Damage Act 1965, which:

1. ARemoved the right to compensation retrospectively
2. BIncreased the compensation payable
3. CRequired the courts to hear the case again
4. DWas struck down by the courts

A woman with a terminal illness asks for a guarantee that her husband will not be prosecuted for helping her die. In Pretty v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that Article 2:

1. ARequires states to allow assisted suicide
2. BWas not engaged by her case at all
3. CRequires an immunity for her husband
4. DDoes not include a right to die

D, who honestly but wrongly believes V is attacking a stranger, punches V. Following R v Williams (Gladstone), D:

1. AIs liable, because the mistake was about the facts
2. BIs liable, because the mistaken belief was not based on reasonable grounds
3. CMust prove the belief on the balance of probabilities
4. DIs judged on the facts as D honestly believed them to be

In Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993), the House of Lords held that withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from a patient in a persistent vegetative state:

1. AWas a positive act of killing, amounting to murder
2. BWas lawful only because the patient's family had given consent, which is required for any such withdrawal
3. CWas an omission that was lawful because continued treatment was no longer in the patient's best interests
4. DWas lawful because the patient had made an advance decision

In Foster v British Gas (1990), the Court held that a directive can be relied on against a body that is:

1. AMade responsible by the state for a public service under its control, with special powers
2. BOwned by private shareholders but regulated by law
3. CAny large company with more than 500 employees
4. DAny private body that receives a public contract from the state, whatever its powers or functions

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

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