Tort law worksheet with answers

Defamation protects a person's:

1. APrivacy of medical records only
2. BReputation
3. CPhysical safety
4. DProperty

In English law, is there a general duty to rescue a stranger in danger?

1. AYes, but only for trained professionals
2. BYes, everyone must try to rescue anyone in danger
3. CNo, there is generally no liability for a pure omission
4. DNo, unless the stranger asks for help

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

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

Rylands v Fletcher liability concerns:

1. ALiability for any harm caused by careless use of land, even without escape
2. BMedical negligence
3. CDefamation in newspapers
4. DEscape of a dangerous thing brought onto land in a non-natural use

A milkman, forbidden by his employer to give lifts, lets a boy ride on his float to help deliver milk. The boy is injured by the milkman's negligence. In Rose v Plenty, the employer was:

1. AVicariously liable, because the boy was helping with the employer's work
2. BLiable only if the milkman had no insurance
3. CNot liable, because giving lifts had been expressly forbidden by the employer
4. DNot liable, because the boy was a trespasser

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

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

In the Dutch "relativity" requirement (Article 6:163 BW), a claim fails if:

1. AThe damage exceeds a fixed amount
2. BThe claimant did not hire a lawyer
3. CThe defendant did not foresee the precise way in which the damage to the claimant would come about
4. DThe norm that was broken does not aim to protect the claimant against the damage suffered