Tort law worksheet with answers

When two tortfeasors cause the same indivisible damage, the claimant can usually:

1. ASue only the one who acted first
2. BRecover the full damages from either of them
3. CSue only if both are joined in one claim
4. DRecover only half from each of them

The defence of necessity in tort may justify an act when:

1. AThe defendant was in a hurry
2. BThe act was necessary to protect the defendant's business profits from foreseeable loss
3. CIt was reasonably necessary to prevent greater harm to people or property
4. DThe claimant was rude to the defendant

What is the usual remedy for an ongoing private nuisance?

1. AAn apology ordered by the court
2. BAn injunction
3. CRescission
4. DA fine payable to the state

Pure economic loss caused by negligent acts is:

1. ARecoverable only where the defendant's conduct was also a criminal offence of some kind
2. BRecoverable only for companies
3. CAlways recoverable
4. DGenerally not recoverable, with exceptions such as negligent misstatement

Two 15-year-old girls fence with plastic rulers and one is injured in the eye. Under Mullin v Richards, the defendant's conduct is judged by the standard of:

1. AThe defendant's own understanding
2. BA reasonable adult
3. CA reasonable teacher
4. DA reasonable 15-year-old

A doctor builds a consulting room next to a confectioner whose noisy machines had operated for years without complaint. Can the confectioner defend a nuisance claim by saying the doctor "came to the nuisance"?

1. ANo, because doctors have special protection
2. BYes, the doctor accepted the noise by building there
3. CYes, because the machines were used first
4. DNo, coming to the nuisance is not a defence

A newspaper publishes that a model is attending Narcotics Anonymous, with details and photographs of her leaving a meeting. In Campbell v MGN, the House of Lords held:

1. AOnly the fact of her addiction was private
2. BThere was no claim, because the photographs were taken on a public street in London
3. CThere was no claim, because she had lied about drug use
4. DPublishing the details and photographs was a misuse of private information

Two children see their father collapse and die from a heart attack, long after a hospital negligently failed to diagnose his heart disease. In Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (2024), the Supreme Court held that:

1. AThey could recover because they witnessed the death
2. BThey were primary victims of the hospital's negligence
3. CThe hospital owed them no duty as secondary victims
4. DOnly their mother could claim for their shock