Tort law worksheet with answers

Compensatory damages in tort generally aim to:

1. APut the claimant in the position they would have been in without the tort
2. BDivide the loss equally between the parties
3. CPut the claimant in the position they would have been in if a promise had been kept
4. DPunish the defendant for the wrongdoing

Donoghue v Stevenson is famous for:

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

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

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

The Wagon Mound case concerns which issue?

1. ARemoteness: only reasonably foreseeable types of damage are recoverable
2. BDuty of care to unborn children
3. CStrict liability for animals
4. DDirectness: a defendant is liable for all direct consequences of the breach

In a claim for psychiatric harm, a "secondary victim" must usually show:

1. AThat they were paid to be present
2. BA close tie of love and affection and closeness in time and space to the event
3. COnly that they suffered a recognised psychiatric illness after hearing of the event
4. DPhysical injury of their own

Patients are paralysed by anaesthetic contaminated through invisible cracks in glass ampoules, a risk unknown to doctors at the time. Under Roe v Minister of Health, the hospital was:

1. ANegligent, judged by the medical knowledge available at trial
2. BNegligent, because harm occurred in hospital
3. CStrictly liable for any harm from drugs
4. DNot negligent, judged by the knowledge available at the time

As a practical joke, a man falsely tells a woman that her husband has been badly injured. She suffers a serious illness from the shock. In Wilkinson v Downton, the man was:

1. ANot liable, because there was no direct physical contact with the woman
2. BLiable only in defamation
3. CLiable for intentionally causing physical harm by a false statement
4. DNot liable, because it was only a joke

An internal auditor with a grudge against his employer leaks staff payroll data online. In WM Morrison Supermarkets v Various Claimants (2020), the Supreme Court held the employer:

1. ANot vicariously liable, as he was pursuing a personal vendetta
2. BVicariously liable, as data breaches are strict liability
3. CLiable only to staff whose data was used for fraud
4. DVicariously liable, as he had access to the data through his job