Tort law worksheet with answers

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

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

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

1. AConversion
2. BBattery
3. CNuisance
4. DPassing off

Compensatory damages in tort generally aim to:

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

The Bolam test applies to:

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

A doctor builds a consulting room next to a confectioner whose noisy machines had operated for years without complaint. Can the confectioner defend a nuisance claim by saying the doctor "came to the nuisance"?

1. ANo, coming to the nuisance is not a defence
2. BNo, because doctors have special protection
3. CYes, the doctor accepted the noise by building there
4. DYes, because the machines were used first

A milkman, forbidden by his employer to give lifts, lets a boy ride on his float to help deliver milk. The boy is injured by the milkman's negligence. In Rose v Plenty, the employer was:

1. ANot liable, because giving lifts had been expressly forbidden by the employer
2. BNot liable, because the boy was a trespasser
3. CVicariously liable, because the boy was helping with the employer's work
4. DLiable only if the milkman had no insurance

The defence of "illegality" (ex turpi causa) in tort means that:

1. AOnly the state can bring the claim
2. BEvery claimant with a criminal record loses
3. CThe defendant cannot be sued if the defendant's own conduct towards the claimant was itself a criminal offence
4. DA claimant may be barred from recovering where the claim arises from their own serious illegal conduct

A woman's 999 call is wrongly graded, and the police arrive too late to stop her former partner killing her. In Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police, the Supreme Court held:

1. AThe call handler alone was personally liable
2. BThe police were strictly liable for the delay
3. CThe police owed no duty in negligence to protect her
4. DThe police owed a duty because they took the call