Tort law worksheet with answers

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

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

False imprisonment is:

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

Under the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957, an occupier must be prepared for children to be:

1. AAlways supervised by parents
2. BAs careful as adults
3. CKept off the premises entirely
4. DLess careful than adults

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

Strict liability means a defendant can be liable:

1. AOnly if they broke a contract
2. BOnly if they acted intentionally
3. CWithout proof of fault
4. DOnly for criminal acts

Which statement about the "loss of a chance" doctrine in English medical negligence is correct?

1. ALost chances are compensated proportionately, as in claims for lost commercial chances
2. BA lost chance of recovery below 50% is generally not compensated (Gregg v Scott)
3. CAny lost chance is fully compensated
4. DThe doctrine applies only to economic loss in all cases

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. ARylands v Fletcher was abolished in English law
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. DThe council was liable in negligence for the leak