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What is pure economic loss? - correct answer Financial (or 'pecuniary') loss NOT resulting from physical harm. When is no duty of care owed in relation to pure economic loss? - correct answer Where the financial loss is not related to a personal injury or damage to property. Which case establishes that pure economic loss cannot be claimed for? - correct answer Spartan Steel V Martin & co. Spartan S...

Consider the types of harm covered by the tort of private nuisance. Which one of the following statements is most likely to be INCORRECT? - Loss of sleep is a type of harm covered by private nuisance. - A heart attack is a type of harm covered by private nuisance. - Damage to trees is a type of harm covered by private nuisance. - Damage to the foundations of a house is a type of harm covered by private nuisance. - correct answer A heart attack is a type...

Is it TRUE or FALSE to say that a person might cause damage due to their carelessness, but if they do not owe a duty of care to the person they harm, there can be no successful claim in negligence A. True B. False - correct answer Correct answer = A The statement is true. The first element of a claim in negligence is to show that a duty of care is owed. If there is no duty, there can be no claim, even though damage may have been caused due to the fault of ano...

An office tenant has failed to pay its rent when it fell due ten days ago. The landlord has had no past problems with this tenant. The landlord has heard that the tenant is planning to expand its business and has begun negotiations for further office space. The state of the current market is difficult for landlords and therefore this landlord has concluded it would be difficult to find a new tenant for this office at the present time. Which remedy is likely to be the most appropriate for this...

A claimant is employed by a hospital as a research biochemist. One afternoon, while conducting an experiment in the hospital laboratory, they lit a gas bunsen burner and there was a small explosion. As a result of the explosion the claimant sustained burns to their hand. The hospital have had the Bunsen inspected by an expert who has reported they cannot find anything wrong with it. Will the claimant be owed a duty of care by the hospital? - correct answer Yes, bec...

A prosecutor is considering whether the actus reus is satisfied for an offence of battery where a man has punched another man in a public house, causing a bruise, in a pre-meditated fashion and is likely to receive a suspended prison sentence for the offence. What part of the facts of this incident constitute the actus reus for the offence of battery? A. The mental part of the offence. B. The bruise. C. The punch. D. The penalty for the offence. E. The pre-meditated nature of the offen...

A solicitor is instructed by a manufacturer of exercise bikes. They have been notified of a claim by a customer. The details of the claim are that the customer bought one of the top of the range exercise bikes from a sports shop that has subsequently ceased trading. They took the bike home, opened the packaging that the bike was supplied in by the manufacturer and read the instruction booklet carefully before using it for the first time. The customer is a professional violinist and decided to pr...

The driver of a car is not wearing a seatbelt and his car is negligently struck by another vehicle. He suffers personal injuries as a result and brings a claim. The driver of the other vehicle is considering possible defences to this action. In a claim under negligence, which of the following amounts to a partial defence only? A Voluntary assumption of risk. B Illegality. C Contributory negligence. D Exclusion of liability. E Undue influence. - correct answer ...

When is loss of earning capacity only relevant? - correct answer Where the claimant is still able to work The duty of care is judged objectively/subjectively - case - correct answer objectively - Glasgow Corp v Muir CPA 1987 relates to safety or quality? (defect) - correct answer Safety __________ visitors who are injured due to the state of the premises are automatically owed a duty under the OLA 1957 -...

understanding principles about human behaviors from a cultural standpoint is known as - correct answer cultural psychology 2 main goals of psychology are: - correct answer to build a body of knowledge about people and applying that knowledge to intervene in people's lives to make it better. (in other words try and understand behavior, as to why they happen, when, and then create interventions) Most theories in psychology are based ...

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Which layer of the Earth do we Not have any physical samples from drilling? - correct answer The mantle The Earth's core is primarily made of which two elements? - correct answer Iron and Nickel Most of the transform boundaries on Earth are found where? - correct answer Associated with spreading boundaries on oceanic crust The paleoclimate studies sited by Wegener to support his congenital drift theor...

Earth System - correct answer Global interconnecting of air, water, rocks, life Everything interacts/affects another thing Wholistic view of Earth Earth is many separate but interacting parts **Earth's 4 Spheres - correct answer Atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, geosphere The System Approach for Earth - correct answer Any part of Earth is separate/isolated in some way with boundaries 3 types of Sy...

When viewed from the North Pole, in what direction does the Earth rotate? - correct answer Counter-clockwise What are the environmental effects of the Earth's rotation? - correct answer Season Day and night Fluctuating/Difference air temperature Atmospheric circulation The Coriolis effect Ocean circulation When the subsolar point is at 23.5 degrees S, the earth experiences what season? - correct answer W...

What is a system? - correct answer A set of components distinct from the outside environment What distinguishes the Earth Systems Science approach? - correct answer Within Earth's systems, both matter and energy are stored and retrieved, and energy is transformed from one type to another. There are interactions, connections and feedback. It acknowledges that changes in the solid earth (land - lithosphere or geosphere) result from i...

Daily motion of the sun - correct answer Appears to rise in the general east and set in the general west every day. It reaches its greatest altitude when in transit. Rate of 15 degrees per hour East to west with respect to the horizon due to earths rotation 15 degrees per hour Does the sun follow the same diurnal path each day? - correct answer No, if declination changes, then the Suns diurnal path changes. Suns diurnal path changes dail...

What is the radius of earth? - correct answer 6,371 kilometers The Earth started as a fiery, molten planet of homogenous composition, but has since largely solidified and separated into three layers - correct answer True What are the three main layers of the earth? - correct answer core, crust, mantle Where does our knowledge about earth's interior come from? - correct answer ...

Exam 2: February 15 online w lockdown browser Quiz 4: January 25- February 1 Quiz 5: February 1- February 8 Quiz 6: February 8- February 15 Seawater - Why is it salty? Surface Circulation: Currents Deep-Water Circulation and Antarctica Life in the Oceans - correct answer Water on Earth - correct answer 97 percent of water in ocean on earth most of freshwater is solid ice or underground (groundwater) order of vol...

Minerals - correct answer is an inorganic, crystalline solid. A mineral is formed through natural processes and has a definite chemical composition. Physical properties - correct answer Luster = the reflection of light off a mineral's surface Streak = is the color of a mineral's powder cleavage = the tendency of a mineral to break along certain planes to make smooth surfaces hardness = whether a mineral will scratch or be scr...

1. What is the term for the equilibrium that exists between parts of the Earth's crust which behaves as if it consists of blocks floating on the underlying mantle? - correct answer isostasy 1. What does the concept of uniformitarianism essentially refer to? - correct answer The present is the key to the past 1. T/F: In science, a theory is a guess based on preliminary observations - correct answer False ...