Tort law worksheet with answers

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

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

Which three elements must a claimant usually prove in negligence?

1. AContract, breach and loss
2. BFault, punishment and apology
3. CIntention, motive and harm
4. DDuty of care, breach of that duty and damage caused by the breach

An employer's duty to provide competent staff, safe equipment, a safe place and a safe system of work is:

1. AA duty that can be passed to any contractor
2. BA duty owed only to managers
3. CA non-delegable duty
4. DA duty that applies only in factories

Pure economic loss caused by negligent acts is:

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

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

A solicitor negligently delays preparing a new will, and the client dies before signing. The intended beneficiaries lose their gifts. In White v Jones, the solicitor:

1. AWas liable to the disappointed beneficiaries
2. BWas not liable, because there was no contract with them
3. CWas liable only to the client's estate
4. DWas not liable, because the will was never signed

Under section 3 of the Defamation Act 2013, the honest opinion defence requires that the statement:

1. AWas an opinion, indicated its basis, and an honest person could have held it on the facts
2. BWas published by a professional journalist
3. CWas made with no intention to harm
4. DWas a statement of fact, indicated its source, and was shown to be substantially true by the defendant

As a practical joke, a man falsely tells a woman that her husband has been badly injured. She suffers a serious illness from the shock. In Wilkinson v Downton, the man was:

1. ANot liable, because it was only a joke
2. BLiable for intentionally causing physical harm by a false statement
3. CLiable only in defamation
4. DNot liable, because there was no direct physical contact with the woman