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. ABinding from the second night onwards
2. BPart of the contract, because hotels may exclude liability
3. CNot part of the contract, because it came after formation
4. DPart of the contract, because she stayed in the room

A client repudiates an advertising contract the same day it is made. The agency ignores this, displays the adverts for the full period and sues for the price. In White and Carter v McGregor:

1. AThe agency could only claim damages after mitigating
2. BThe agency could recover nothing
3. CThe agency had to obtain a court order first
4. DThe agency could recover the full price

Rylands v Fletcher liability concerns:

1. ADefamation in newspapers
2. BEscape of a dangerous thing brought onto land in a non-natural use
3. CMedical negligence
4. DLiability for any harm caused by careless use of land, even without escape

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

In Pickin v British Railways Board, the House of Lords held that courts:

1. AMust investigate any allegation of fraud in Parliament
2. BCan review Acts for compliance with private bill rules
3. CWill not examine whether Parliament followed its internal procedures in passing an Act
4. DCan strike down a private Act if it is shown that Parliament was misled during its passage

The Wednesbury unreasonableness test asks whether a decision is:

1. ASlightly less than ideal
2. BUnpopular with the public
3. CSo unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have made it
4. DDifferent from what the judge would have decided on the same evidence

D puts poison in V's drink intending to kill her, but V dies of an unrelated heart attack before the poison works. D is guilty of:

1. AMurder
2. BManslaughter
3. CNo offence at all
4. DAttempted murder

Under the loss of control defence (Coroners and Justice Act 2009), the defence is NOT available if:

1. AThe defendant had been drinking that day
2. BThe loss of control was not sudden
3. CThe defendant acted in a considered desire for revenge
4. DThe victim was a family member

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

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

In Aranyosi and Căldăraru (2016), the Court held that a judicial authority executing a European Arrest Warrant:

1. AMust always surrender the person, whatever the prison conditions
2. BMust ask the European Court of Human Rights for permission
3. CMay postpone surrender if there is a real risk of inhuman or degrading detention conditions for that person
4. DCan refuse any warrant from a state it distrusts in general