Tort law worksheet with answers

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

1. ABattery
2. BConversion
3. CPassing off
4. DNuisance

An employer's duty to provide competent staff, safe equipment, a safe place and a safe system of work is:

1. AA non-delegable duty
2. BA duty that applies only in factories
3. CA duty owed only to managers
4. DA duty that can be passed to any contractor

For a defamation claim, the statement must be defamatory, refer to the claimant, and be:

1. APublished in print or on television
2. BPublished to at least one third party
3. CRepeated by at least two people
4. DRead by the claimant personally

In Barnett v Chelsea and Kensington Hospital, why did the claim fail?

1. AThe claim was made too late
2. BThe doctor met the standard of care
3. CThe patient would have died even with proper treatment
4. DThe hospital owed no duty of care to a patient it had not admitted

The Bolam test applies to:

1. AThe remoteness of damage
2. BThe standard of care expected of professionals such as doctors
3. COccupiers' liability to trespassers
4. DDefamation defences

A council leaves an abandoned boat on its land. Two boys jack it up to repair it, and it falls and injures one. In Jolley v Sutton LBC, the council was:

1. ALiable only to the boy who used the jack
2. BLiable, because the broad type of accident was foreseeable
3. CNot liable, because repairs are not play
4. DNot liable, because the boys' exact actions were unforeseeable

A newspaper publishes that a model is attending Narcotics Anonymous, with details and photographs of her leaving a meeting. In Campbell v MGN, the House of Lords held:

1. AOnly the fact of her addiction was private
2. BThere was no claim, because she had lied about drug use
3. CThere was no claim, because the photographs were taken on a public street in London
4. DPublishing the details and photographs was a misuse of private information

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