Tort law worksheet with answers

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

1. AReflect the claimant's injured feelings
2. BPunish the defendant for outrageous conduct
3. CCompensate the claimant's financial loss
4. DReturn any profit the claimant has lost

Compensatory damages in tort generally aim to:

1. APunish the defendant for the wrongdoing
2. BPut the claimant in the position they would have been in without the tort
3. CPut the claimant in the position they would have been in if a promise had been kept
4. DDivide the loss equally between the parties

In negligence, the standard of care is usually that of:

1. AThe claimant's expectations
2. BThe defendant's own personal best
3. CA perfect expert in every case
4. DThe reasonable person in the defendant's position

A driver is in a minor collision, suffers no physical injury, but his chronic fatigue illness becomes permanent. In Page v Smith, he could recover because:

1. AHe had a close tie of love with the other driver
2. BThe defendant intended to injure him
3. CPsychiatric injury is always recoverable after any road accident, however minor
4. DHe was a primary victim and personal injury of some kind was foreseeable

A five-year-old falls into a trench on open land while playing without an adult. In Phipps v Rochester Corporation, the occupier was:

1. ANot liable, because the child was a trespasser
2. BLiable, because the trench was not fenced
3. CLiable, because young children must be protected from every danger on the land
4. DNot liable, because it could expect parents to supervise very young children

The Wagon Mound case concerns which issue?

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

Under section 4 of the Defamation Act 2013, the public interest defence requires that:

1. AThe statement was made in Parliament or in court
2. BThe statement was on a matter of public interest and the defendant honestly believed that every factual claim it contained was true
3. CThe statement was on a matter of public interest and the defendant reasonably believed publishing it was in the public interest
4. DThe statement is shown to be substantially true

A man's leg is injured by a negligent driver. Later, robbers shoot the same leg and it is amputated. In Baker v Willoughby, the driver:

1. AWas liable only until the shooting
2. BRemained liable for the original disability after the shooting
3. CWas liable for the amputation too
4. DWas released completely from liability by the robbers' later shooting