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Tort Public Nuisance Degree Test

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of 9 available terms

3 Written Questions

3 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Disrupting traffic by queueing in a road, court will consider the interests of different parties.
  2. Badly organised pop festival, liable.
  3. Birth defects to children through inhalation of harmful substances. Personal injuries are recoverable.

3 True/False Questions

  1. Attorney General v PYA QuarriesDriver hadn't taken reasonable steps to light lorry after he had broken down. Highway obstruction, liable.

          

  2. Public NuisanceActivity which interferes with the safety or convenience of a section of the general public.

          

  3. Tate & Lyle Industries v Greater London CouncilD erected ferry terminals in Thames causing silt making it hard for large vessles to dock; public suffered special damage beyond average river user. had to pay for dredging to clear water.