Tort law worksheet with answers

False imprisonment is:

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

Compensatory damages in tort generally aim to:

1. ADivide the loss equally between the parties
2. BPut the claimant in the position they would have been in if a promise had been kept
3. CPunish the defendant for the wrongdoing
4. DPut the claimant in the position they would have been in without the tort

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

1. ARecover only half from each of them
2. BSue only if both are joined in one claim
3. CRecover the full damages from either of them
4. DSue only the one who acted first

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

In Barnett v Chelsea and Kensington Hospital, why did the claim fail?

1. AThe patient would have died even with proper treatment
2. BThe claim was made too late
3. CThe doctor met the standard of care
4. DThe hospital owed no duty of care to a patient it had not admitted

Contractors negligently cut a power cable, damaging the melt in a factory's furnace and stopping further production. In Spartan Steel v Martin, the factory recovered:

1. AThe damaged melt and its lost profit, but not profit on further melts
2. BNothing, because all the losses were economic and none was physical damage
3. CAll profits lost while the power was off
4. DOnly the cost of repairing the cable

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. AThe character of the locality was irrelevant, because there was physical damage to property
2. BThere was a nuisance only if the fumes were noisy
3. CThe claimant came to the nuisance, so lost
4. DThere was no nuisance, because the character of the industrial area excused the fumes and the damage

A tannery spills small amounts of solvent over many years. It seeps underground and contaminates a water company's borehole, which nobody could have foreseen. In Cambridge Water v Eastern Counties Leather:

1. AThe tannery was liable in negligence instead
2. BThe water company was barred by contributory negligence
3. CThe tannery was not liable, because the type of damage was not foreseeable
4. DThe tannery was liable, because Rylands liability is strict and needs no foreseeability