Tort law worksheet with answers

What is the usual remedy for an ongoing private nuisance?

1. AA fine payable to the state
2. BRescission
3. CAn apology ordered by the court
4. DAn injunction

In English law, who can normally sue in private nuisance?

1. AA person with a right to the land affected, such as an owner or tenant
2. BOnly the local authority
3. CAny visitor staying at the property
4. DAnyone who lives at the property, including family members and lodgers

When two tortfeasors cause the same indivisible damage, the claimant can usually:

1. ASue only the one who acted first
2. BRecover only half from each of them
3. CRecover the full damages from either of them
4. DSue only if both are joined in one claim

In Bolitho v City and Hackney HA, the House of Lords added to the Bolam test that the professional opinion relied on must:

1. ABe accepted by the patient
2. BBe written in a medical textbook
3. CBe capable of withstanding logical analysis
4. DBe held by most doctors in the country

Heat from a neighbour's ordinary activity damages specially sensitive paper stored by the claimant, but would not harm ordinary paper. Under Robinson v Kilvert, the claim:

1. ASucceeds, because any physical damage to goods is an actionable nuisance
2. BSucceeds, because the paper was valuable
3. CFails, because nuisance does not protect abnormally sensitive uses
4. DFails, because heat cannot be a nuisance

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

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

The "eggshell skull" rule means that:

1. AThe defendant must take the victim as found, including unusual vulnerabilities
2. BFragile victims cannot recover damages
3. CHead injuries are compensated at a fixed rate
4. DOnly foreseeable claimants can sue

A council's water pipe to a block of flats leaks and causes an embankment to collapse, exposing a gas main. In Transco v Stockport MBC, the House of Lords held:

1. AThe council was strictly liable for all escaping water
2. BThe council was liable in negligence for the leak
3. CThere was no Rylands liability, because supplying water by pipe was not a non-natural use
4. DRylands v Fletcher was abolished in English law