Tort law worksheet with answers

Under the Defamation Act 2013, the defence of truth requires the defendant to show that:

1. AThe defendant honestly and reasonably believed the statement was true
2. BEvery single word of the statement is accurate
3. CThe imputation conveyed by the statement is substantially true
4. DThe statement was on a matter of public interest

The tort of battery is:

1. ACausing another person to reasonably fear that unlawful force is about to be used
2. BCarelessly injuring another person on the road
3. CMaking a false statement that harms someone's reputation
4. DThe intentional and direct application of unlawful force to another person

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

1. AKept off the premises entirely
2. BAlways supervised by parents
3. CLess careful than adults
4. DAs careful as adults

A solicitor negligently delays preparing a new will, and the client dies before signing. The intended beneficiaries lose their gifts. In White v Jones, the solicitor:

1. AWas not liable, because there was no contract with them
2. BWas not liable, because the will was never signed
3. CWas liable to the disappointed beneficiaries
4. DWas liable only to the client's estate

An employer does not give goggles to a worker already blind in one eye, who loses his good eye at work. Under Paris v Stepney BC, the employer was:

1. AStrictly liable for all eye injuries
2. BNegligent, because the possible harm to this worker was very serious
3. CNot negligent, because the risk of an accident was the same for all workers
4. DNot negligent, because goggles were not normally provided

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

After a workplace injury weakens his leg, a man walks down steep stairs with no handrail while carrying a child, his leg gives way, and he jumps and breaks his ankle. In McKew v Holland and Hannen and Cubitts:

1. AThe employer was liable for half of the ankle injury
2. BHis unreasonable conduct broke the chain of causation
3. CThe stairs' owner was solely liable
4. DThe employer was liable for the ankle injury as a foreseeable result

A prisoner known to be a suicide risk kills himself in a police cell after officers leave the door hatch open. In Reeves v Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the House of Lords held:

1. AHis deliberate act broke the chain of causation
2. BThe police were not liable, because a sane adult's suicide is always a voluntary act breaking the chain
3. CHis deliberate act did not break the chain, because it was the very thing the duty aimed to prevent
4. DThe claim failed because of illegality