Tort law worksheet with answers

How do English courts usually treat a person injured while rescuing someone endangered by the defendant's negligence?

1. AThey cannot claim, because they volunteered
2. BThey can usually claim, because rescue is foreseeable
3. CThey can claim only if they are professional rescuers, such as firefighters
4. DThey can claim only half their damages

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

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

Under Part I of the UK Consumer Protection Act 1987, liability for a defective product is:

1. AFault-based, so the claimant must prove negligence
2. BLimited to products bought directly from the producer
3. COnly available if there is a contract with the producer of the product
4. DStrict, so the claimant need not prove the producer was at fault

Auditors negligently certify a company's accounts. An investor relies on them to buy more shares and suffers loss. In Caparo v Dickman, the auditors:

1. AOwed a duty because the investor was a shareholder
2. BOwed no duty to the investor for this purpose
3. COwed a duty to anyone relying on the accounts
4. DWere strictly liable for errors in the accounts

A premature baby goes blind. Excess oxygen negligently given was only one of five possible causes. In Wilsher v Essex AHA, the claim:

1. ASucceeded, because the negligence materially increased the risk of the blindness
2. BSucceeded, with damages reduced by four fifths
3. CFailed, because no duty was owed to a baby
4. DFailed, because the claimant could not prove the negligence caused the blindness

A boarding-house warden employed by a school abuses the boys in his care. In Lister v Hesley Hall, the employer was:

1. AVicariously liable, because the abuse was closely connected with his duties
2. BNot liable, because abuse is never within the course of the warden's employment
3. CLiable only for its own negligent hiring
4. DNot liable, because the warden acted for himself

A tannery spills small amounts of solvent over many years. It seeps underground and contaminates a water company's borehole, which nobody could have foreseen. In Cambridge Water v Eastern Counties Leather:

1. AThe tannery was liable in negligence instead
2. BThe tannery was not liable, because the type of damage was not foreseeable
3. CThe tannery was liable, because Rylands liability is strict and needs no foreseeability
4. DThe water company was barred by contributory negligence

The "eggshell skull" rule means that:

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