Tort law worksheet with answers

To bring a private claim for public nuisance, a claimant must show:

1. ASpecial damage beyond that suffered by the public in general
2. BThat a criminal conviction has been obtained
3. CAn interest in land next to the place where the nuisance occurs
4. DThat the defendant intended to cause harm

False imprisonment is:

1. ABlocking one of several routes a person wants to take, however briefly
2. BWrongly reporting someone to the police
3. CUnlawfully and completely restricting a person's freedom of movement
4. DRefusing to let someone enter your house

The tort of assault is:

1. AActually applying force to someone directly and without their consent
2. BInsulting someone in front of others
3. CHolding someone in a room against their will
4. DCausing someone to reasonably expect immediate unlawful force

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

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

A cricket ball is hit out of a ground very rarely and injures a passer-by. In Bolton v Stone, the club was:

1. ANot negligent, because the risk was very small
2. BNegligent, because it did not stop playing cricket
3. CNegligent, because the injury was foreseeable
4. DStrictly liable for anything leaving the ground

In Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services, the court allowed claims against employers even though the "but for" test could not be met because:

1. AThe victims had signed contracts with all the employers, which expressly allocated liability for asbestos disease
2. BThe House of Lords abolished causation
3. CThe employers admitted intention
4. DSeveral employers had exposed the victim to asbestos and it was impossible to say which caused the mesothelioma

A woman's 999 call is wrongly graded, and the police arrive too late to stop her former partner killing her. In Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police, the Supreme Court held:

1. AThe police owed a duty because they took the call
2. BThe police were strictly liable for the delay
3. CThe police owed no duty in negligence to protect her
4. DThe call handler alone was personally liable