Tort law worksheet with answers

False imprisonment is:

1. ABlocking one of several routes a person wants to take, however briefly
2. BRefusing to let someone enter your house
3. CUnlawfully and completely restricting a person's freedom of movement
4. DWrongly reporting someone to the police

The tort of assault is:

1. ACausing someone to reasonably expect immediate unlawful force
2. BHolding someone in a room against their will
3. CActually applying force to someone directly and without their consent
4. DInsulting someone in front of others

How do English courts usually treat a person injured while rescuing someone endangered by the defendant's negligence?

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

Under Froom v Butcher, if wearing a seatbelt would have prevented a car passenger's injuries entirely, damages are usually reduced by:

1. A75%
2. B25%
3. C10%
4. D50%

Under Dutch law, the general provision for liability for unlawful acts (onrechtmatige daad) is:

1. AArticle 6:162 BW
2. BArticle 1 of the Constitution
3. CArticle 3:40 BW
4. DArticle 7:17 BW

Rylands v Fletcher liability concerns:

1. AMedical negligence
2. BLiability for any harm caused by careless use of land, even without escape
3. CEscape of a dangerous thing brought onto land in a non-natural use
4. DDefamation in newspapers

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 owed a duty because they took the call
3. CThe police were strictly liable for the delay
4. DThe police owed no duty in negligence to protect her

As a practical joke, a man falsely tells a woman that her husband has been badly injured. She suffers a serious illness from the shock. In Wilkinson v Downton, the man was:

1. ANot liable, because there was no direct physical contact with the woman
2. BLiable for intentionally causing physical harm by a false statement
3. CNot liable, because it was only a joke
4. DLiable only in defamation