Tort law worksheet with answers

Wrongfully dealing with another person's goods in a way that denies their rights, such as selling them, is the tort of:

1. ABattery
2. BPassing off
3. CNuisance
4. DConversion

False imprisonment is:

1. AWrongly reporting someone to the police
2. BUnlawfully and completely restricting a person's freedom of movement
3. CBlocking one of several routes a person wants to take, however briefly
4. DRefusing to let someone enter your house

Which defence applies when the claimant voluntarily accepted the risk of harm?

1. ANecessity
2. BContributory negligence
3. CVolenti non fit injuria (consent)
4. DSelf-defence

A man bangs trays and shouts every time his neighbour, a music teacher, gives lessons, purely to annoy her. In Christie v Davey, the court held:

1. AOnly the police could deal with the noise
2. BHis malice made the noise an unreasonable use of land and a nuisance
3. CMusic lessons are themselves a nuisance
4. DIntention is irrelevant in nuisance, so his motive could not affect the claim

A young man dives into a shallow lake in a public park despite warning signs and is paralysed. In Tomlinson v Congleton BC, the council was:

1. ALiable, because the signs were ignored by many
2. BNot liable, because the risk was obvious and voluntarily taken
3. CLiable for half of the damage
4. DLiable, because it did not destroy the beach

The Bolam test applies to:

1. AOccupiers' liability to trespassers
2. BThe remoteness of damage
3. CDefamation defences
4. DThe standard of care expected of professionals such as doctors

A police officer, without arresting her, takes hold of a woman's arm to stop her walking away so she can be questioned. In Collins v Wilcock:

1. AThis was lawful, as police may restrain anyone they wish to question
2. BThis was lawful, because she was suspected
3. CThis was a battery, as it went beyond acceptable everyday contact
4. DThis was only an assault, as no harm was done

Fumes from a copper smelting works damage trees and shrubs on a nearby estate in an industrial area. In St Helen's Smelting v Tipping, the House of Lords held:

1. AThere was a nuisance only if the fumes were noisy
2. BThe character of the locality was irrelevant, because there was physical damage to property
3. CThere was no nuisance, because the character of the industrial area excused the fumes and the damage
4. DThe claimant came to the nuisance, so lost