Tort law worksheet with answers

In general, a person who hires an independent contractor is:

1. AAlways vicariously liable for the contractor's torts
2. BLiable for all torts committed in the same year
3. CLiable only if the contractor has no insurance
4. DNot vicariously liable for the contractor's torts

In English law, publishing private information without justification is mainly dealt with by the tort of:

1. AMisuse of private information
2. BDefamation
3. CTrespass to land
4. DMalicious falsehood

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

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

Heat from a neighbour's ordinary activity damages specially sensitive paper stored by the claimant, but would not harm ordinary paper. Under Robinson v Kilvert, the claim:

1. AFails, because nuisance does not protect abnormally sensitive uses
2. BSucceeds, because any physical damage to goods is an actionable nuisance
3. CFails, because heat cannot be a nuisance
4. DSucceeds, because the paper was valuable

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

A learner driver on her third lesson crashes and injures her instructor. Under Nettleship v Weston, her driving is judged by the standard of:

1. AA reasonably competent and experienced driver
2. BHer own best efforts as a beginner
3. CA professional racing driver
4. DA reasonable learner at the same stage

The "eggshell skull" rule means that:

1. AFragile victims cannot recover damages
2. BOnly foreseeable claimants can sue
3. CHead injuries are compensated at a fixed rate
4. DThe defendant must take the victim as found, including unusual vulnerabilities

A man's leg is injured by a negligent driver. Later, robbers shoot the same leg and it is amputated. In Baker v Willoughby, the driver:

1. AWas liable for the amputation too
2. BWas released completely from liability by the robbers' later shooting
3. CWas liable only until the shooting
4. DRemained liable for the original disability after the shooting