Tort law worksheet with answers

Donoghue v Stevenson is famous for:

1. AEstablishing EU supremacy
2. BEstablishing that manufacturers are liable only to those they contract with
3. CDefining murder
4. DEstablishing the "neighbour principle" for a general duty of care

An employer's duty to provide competent staff, safe equipment, a safe place and a safe system of work is:

1. AA duty owed only to managers
2. BA duty that applies only in factories
3. CA non-delegable duty
4. DA duty that can be passed to any contractor

Defamation protects a person's:

1. APhysical safety
2. BProperty
3. CPrivacy of medical records only
4. DReputation

Two 15-year-old girls fence with plastic rulers and one is injured in the eye. Under Mullin v Richards, the defendant's conduct is judged by the standard of:

1. AA reasonable 15-year-old
2. BThe defendant's own understanding
3. CA reasonable teacher
4. DA reasonable adult

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. ALiable, because young children must be protected from every danger on the land
2. BNot liable, because the child was a trespasser
3. CNot liable, because it could expect parents to supervise very young children
4. DLiable, because the trench was not fenced

A young man dives into a shallow lake in a public park despite warning signs and is paralysed. In Tomlinson v Congleton BC, the council was:

1. ALiable for half of the damage
2. BLiable, because it did not destroy the beach
3. CLiable, because the signs were ignored by many
4. DNot liable, because the risk was obvious and voluntarily taken

After a workplace injury weakens his leg, a man walks down steep stairs with no handrail while carrying a child, his leg gives way, and he jumps and breaks his ankle. In McKew v Holland and Hannen and Cubitts:

1. AThe employer was liable for the ankle injury as a foreseeable result
2. BThe stairs' owner was solely liable
3. CHis unreasonable conduct broke the chain of causation
4. DThe employer was liable for half of the ankle injury

Under the EU Product Liability Directive, the "development risks" defence allows a producer to escape liability if:

1. AThe producer was not negligent in manufacturing
2. BThe product was sold at a low price
3. CThe consumer did not read the instructions
4. DThe state of scientific and technical knowledge when the product was circulated did not allow the defect to be discovered