Tort law worksheet with answers

For a defamation claim, the statement must be defamatory, refer to the claimant, and be:

1. ARead by the claimant personally
2. BRepeated by at least two people
3. CPublished in print or on television
4. DPublished to at least one third party

Private nuisance concerns:

1. ABreaking a contract with a neighbour
2. BUnreasonable interference with a person's use or enjoyment of land
3. CAny loud noise in a public place
4. DDamage to personal reputation

How do English courts usually treat a person injured while rescuing someone endangered by the defendant's negligence?

1. AThey cannot claim, because they volunteered
2. BThey can usually claim, because rescue is foreseeable
3. CThey can claim only half their damages
4. DThey can claim only if they are professional rescuers, such as firefighters

A boarding-house warden employed by a school abuses the boys in his care. In Lister v Hesley Hall, the employer was:

1. ANot liable, because the warden acted for himself
2. BVicariously liable, because the abuse was closely connected with his duties
3. CLiable only for its own negligent hiring
4. DNot liable, because abuse is never within the course of the warden's employment

In a claim for psychiatric harm, a "secondary victim" must usually show:

1. AThat they were paid to be present
2. BPhysical injury of their own
3. COnly that they suffered a recognised psychiatric illness after hearing of the event
4. DA close tie of love and affection and closeness in time and space to the event

A driver is in a minor collision, suffers no physical injury, but his chronic fatigue illness becomes permanent. In Page v Smith, he could recover because:

1. AThe defendant intended to injure him
2. BHe was a primary victim and personal injury of some kind was foreseeable
3. CHe had a close tie of love with the other driver
4. DPsychiatric injury is always recoverable after any road accident, however minor

Members of a religious teaching order abused pupils at schools. The brothers were not employees of the order. In Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society, the Supreme Court held the order:

1. AVicariously liable, as the relationship was akin to employment
2. BLiable only in contract to the schools
3. CNot liable, because the brothers were not employees
4. DNot liable, because the order did not own the schools

A mother arrives at hospital about two hours after a road accident and sees her family injured and covered in blood. In McLoughlin v O'Brian, she:

1. ACould recover only for financial losses
2. BCould not recover, as she was not at the scene
3. CCould recover, as she saw the immediate aftermath
4. DCould not recover, as she was only told about it