Tort law worksheet with answers

Which defence applies when the claimant voluntarily accepted the risk of harm?

1. AVolenti non fit injuria (consent)
2. BContributory negligence
3. CSelf-defence
4. DNecessity

Trespass to land means:

1. AMaking noise on your own land
2. BBuilding a house on your own land
3. CEntering or remaining on another's land without permission
4. DSelling land without a contract

In England and Wales, a negligence claim for personal injury must usually be started within:

1. AThree years of the injury or the date of knowledge
2. BTwelve years of the injury
3. CSix years of the injury
4. DOne year of the injury

The Caparo test for a new duty of care requires:

1. AProof of criminal conduct
2. BA contract between the parties, a breach of its terms and loss flowing directly from the breach
3. CIntention, motive and damage
4. DForeseeability of harm, proximity and that it is fair, just and reasonable to impose a duty

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

A worker inhales silica dust from two sources, only one of which was due to the employer's breach. In Bonnington Castings v Wardlaw, the employer was liable because the guilty dust:

1. AWas more than half of the total dust
2. BWas the only cause of the disease
3. CMaterially contributed to the disease
4. DWas easier to prevent than the other dust

A prisoner known to be a suicide risk kills himself in a police cell after officers leave the door hatch open. In Reeves v Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the House of Lords held:

1. AThe police were not liable, because a sane adult's suicide is always a voluntary act breaking the chain
2. BHis deliberate act broke the chain of causation
3. CThe claim failed because of illegality
4. DHis deliberate act did not break the chain, because it was the very thing the duty aimed to prevent

For a public authority, a negligence claim about how it exercised a statutory power often fails because:

1. AThe authority must be sued in a criminal court
2. BStatutory powers automatically create a private law duty to use them carefully for each citizen
3. CAuthorities are always immune from all claims
4. DCourts are reluctant to impose duties for failing to confer benefits or for policy decisions