Tort law worksheet with answers

Defamation protects a person's:

1. AProperty
2. BPrivacy of medical records only
3. CReputation
4. DPhysical safety

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

1. APublished to at least one third party
2. BRead by the claimant personally
3. CPublished in print or on television
4. DRepeated by at least two people

An employer can be liable for torts committed by an employee during their work. This is called:

1. AStrict liability for all acts
2. BContributory negligence
3. CVicarious liability
4. DNovus actus interveniens

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

In Bolitho v City and Hackney HA, the House of Lords added to the Bolam test that the professional opinion relied on must:

1. ABe written in a medical textbook
2. BBe accepted by the patient
3. CBe capable of withstanding logical analysis
4. DBe held by most doctors in the country

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 council's water pipe to a block of flats leaks and causes an embankment to collapse, exposing a gas main. In Transco v Stockport MBC, the House of Lords held:

1. AThe council was liable in negligence for the leak
2. BThere was no Rylands liability, because supplying water by pipe was not a non-natural use
3. CThe council was strictly liable for all escaping water
4. DRylands v Fletcher was abolished in English law

A tall new building blocks television reception for many nearby homes. In Hunter v Canary Wharf, the House of Lords held:

1. AThere was a nuisance, but only the council could sue
2. BThere was a nuisance, and all residents, including family members and lodgers, could sue
3. CThere was no actionable nuisance, and only those with an interest in land could sue
4. DThere was no nuisance, as nuisance requires noise