Tort law worksheet with answers

Exemplary (punitive) damages in English tort law aim to:

1. AReturn any profit the claimant has lost
2. BCompensate the claimant's financial loss
3. CReflect the claimant's injured feelings
4. DPunish the defendant for outrageous conduct

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

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

An employer can be liable for torts committed by an employee during their work. This is called:

1. AStrict liability for all acts
2. BNovus actus interveniens
3. CContributory negligence
4. DVicarious liability

The Wagon Mound case concerns which issue?

1. ADirectness: a defendant is liable for all direct consequences of the breach
2. BStrict liability for animals
3. CRemoteness: only reasonably foreseeable types of damage are recoverable
4. DDuty of care to unborn children

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. AHer own best efforts as a beginner
2. BA professional racing driver
3. CA reasonably competent and experienced driver
4. DA reasonable learner at the same stage

After a flood makes a factory floor slippery, the owner spreads sawdust but not everywhere, and a worker slips. Under Latimer v AEC, the owner was:

1. ANegligent, because it should have closed the factory until the floor was dry
2. BNegligent, because any slip proves a breach
3. CStrictly liable for flood damage
4. DNot negligent, because closing the factory would have been out of proportion

After drinking together for hours, a man agrees to fly with an obviously very drunk pilot, and the plane crashes. In Morris v Murray, the passenger's claim:

1. ASucceeded, because volenti never applies to passengers
2. BSucceeded, with damages reduced for contributory negligence
3. CFailed, because he voluntarily accepted the risk
4. DFailed, because of illegality

Young offenders escape while their officers sleep, and damage a yacht nearby. In Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co, the House of Lords held:

1. ANo duty, because the Home Office is part of the Crown
2. BThe yacht owner was contributorily negligent
3. CNo duty, because the damage was done by third parties acting of their own free will
4. DA duty could be owed, because the officers had control over the offenders