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

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

1. ANuisance
2. BConversion
3. CBattery
4. DPassing off

Under Part I of the UK Consumer Protection Act 1987, liability for a defective product is:

1. ALimited to products bought directly from the producer
2. BOnly available if there is a contract with the producer of the product
3. CFault-based, so the claimant must prove negligence
4. DStrict, so the claimant need not prove the producer was at fault

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. APsychiatric injury is always recoverable after any road accident, however minor
2. BHe had a close tie of love with the other driver
3. CThe defendant intended to injure him
4. DHe was a primary victim and personal injury of some kind was foreseeable

The "but for" test is used to establish:

1. ARemoteness of damage
2. BThe standard of care
3. CDuty of care
4. DFactual causation

The Caparo test for a new duty of care requires:

1. AA contract between the parties, a breach of its terms and loss flowing directly from the breach
2. BProof of criminal conduct
3. CIntention, motive and damage
4. DForeseeability of harm, proximity and that it is fair, just and reasonable to impose a duty

Residents complain of noise from a motor sports stadium that had been used for years and had planning permission. In Coventry v Lawrence, the Supreme Court held that:

1. AComing to the nuisance was a complete defence
2. BPlanning permission was not in itself a defence, and damages instead of an injunction should be considered more flexibly
3. CPlanning permission was a complete defence to the nuisance claim
4. DCourts must always grant an injunction where nuisance is proved

Under section 4 of the Defamation Act 2013, the public interest defence requires that:

1. AThe statement was on a matter of public interest and the defendant reasonably believed publishing it was in the public interest
2. BThe statement was on a matter of public interest and the defendant honestly believed that every factual claim it contained was true
3. CThe statement is shown to be substantially true
4. DThe statement was made in Parliament or in court