Tort law worksheet with answers

The tort of assault is:

1. AInsulting someone in front of others
2. BCausing someone to reasonably expect immediate unlawful force
3. CHolding someone in a room against their will
4. DActually applying force to someone directly and without their consent

Contributory negligence usually leads to:

1. AComplete defeat of the claim in all modern systems
2. BA reduction in the claimant's damages
3. CA higher award of damages
4. DCriminal liability for the claimant

Statements made by MPs during debates in the UK Parliament are protected in defamation by:

1. AThe public interest defence
2. BThe defence of honest opinion
3. CQualified privilege
4. DAbsolute privilege

An occupier hires a reputable lift company to maintain a lift. The company's negligence causes an accident. Under Haseldine v Daw, the occupier is:

1. ANot liable, if it reasonably chose a competent contractor
2. BLiable, because maintenance is non-delegable
3. CLiable for any defect on its premises
4. DLiable only if the lift is new

Patients are paralysed by anaesthetic contaminated through invisible cracks in glass ampoules, a risk unknown to doctors at the time. Under Roe v Minister of Health, the hospital was:

1. ANegligent, judged by the medical knowledge available at trial
2. BStrictly liable for any harm from drugs
3. CNegligent, because harm occurred in hospital
4. DNot negligent, judged by the knowledge available at the time

In a claim for psychiatric harm, a "secondary victim" must usually show:

1. APhysical injury of their own
2. BThat they were paid to be present
3. COnly that they suffered a recognised psychiatric illness after hearing of the event
4. DA close tie of love and affection and closeness in time and space to the event

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 a statement of fact, indicated its source, and was shown to be substantially true by the defendant
3. CWas published by a professional journalist
4. DWas made with no intention to harm

Two children see their father collapse and die from a heart attack, long after a hospital negligently failed to diagnose his heart disease. In Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (2024), the Supreme Court held that:

1. AThe hospital owed them no duty as secondary victims
2. BOnly their mother could claim for their shock
3. CThey were primary victims of the hospital's negligence
4. DThey could recover because they witnessed the death