Tort Acts Flashcards
Name of Act enacting Leveson Report
Crime and Courts Services Act
Year of Civil Evidence Act
1968
Lord Cairn’s Act YEAR
1858
Name of CN Act
Law Reform (CN) Act 1945
Year of Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
1968
Limited Liability Partnerships Act year
2000
Section 7 PHA ‘97
Course of conduct
S.3 CPA
Not such as persons generally are entitled to expect
Section of Equality Act on harassment
S.26
Companies Act year
2006
Not such as persons generally are entitled to expect CPA
S.3 CPA
S.1 Compensation Act 2006
Consider if liability would prevent/discourage desirable activity
Act making broadcasts libel
The Broadcasting Act 1990
What case allows courts to reduce damages if excessive or inadequate in the case of defamation?
Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 s.8
S.1 LR(CN)A ‘45
Fair and equitable
Section of Compensation Act on mesothelioma
S.3
Section 1 PHA ‘97
know or ought to know
Consider past and present wishes MCA
Section 4(6)(a) MCA
S.329 CJA 2003
Provocation as defence
s.5 CPA
Damage
Producer - person who won/manufactured/abstracted CPA
S.1(2) CPAProducer - person who won/manufactured/abstracted
Section of Equality Act on remedy
S.119
Periodical payment order for future pecuniary loss through personal injury at discretion of court
S.2(1) Damages Act 1996
What Act allowed detention in prison
Prisons Act 1952
Name of Act stating criminal charges show truth (in defamation)
Civil Evidence Act 1968
S.2(2) Damages Act 1996
Periodical payment order for other if consent
Act elaborating on PHA ‘97
Equality Act 2010
Brander CPA
S.2(2)(b) CPA
Year of Crown Proceedings Act
1947
Section 4(6)(a) MCA
Consider past and present wishes
S.4 FAA
Don’t consider benefits coming from estate
Interpret CPA
S.1(1) CPA ‘87
Year of Social Responsibility and Heroism Act
2015
S.4 LR(CN)A ‘45
For N, BoSD or other act/omission giving rise to liability in tort
Name of contribution Act
Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978
Act making plays libel
Theatres Act 1968
Section of Civil Evidence Act 1968 showing truth if criminal charge
S.13
S.1 Damages Act 1996
Consider inflation/accelerated receipt
Year of Defective Premises Act
1972
Part of Planning Act 2006 giving compensation
S.158
Name for claim by V when alive
Damages Act 2006
Section of Lord Cairn’s Act on damages +/instead of
S.2
S.2(2)(c) CPA
Importer
Year of Broadcasting Act
1990
Year of Police and Criminal Evidence Act
1984
Consider possibility of future capacity MCA
Section 4(3)(a) MCA
Act on statutory nuisance
Environmental Protection Act 1990
Section 2 MCA
Impairment/disturbance
Section 4 PHA ‘97
‘Putting people in fear of violence’
Act on damages +/instead of injunction in nuisance
Lord Cairn’s Act 1858 s.2
S.3 MCA
Inability to decide
Act removing blanket immunity for PAs
Crown Proceedings Act 1947 s.2
Disease/physical/mental impairment for physical injury in CPA
S.45
Year of FAA
1976
Year of MCA
2005
Act removing volenti as defence to car accidents
S.149 Road Traffic Act 1988
Section 26 Equality Act
Harassment definition
Section of Crown Proceedings Act 1947 removing immunity of PAs
S.2
Year of Road Traffic Act
1988
Year of Planning Act
2006
Year of Prisons Act
1952
Act on provocation as defence
CJA 2003
Reasonably secure for PPO
S.2(3) Damages Act 1996
Year of mesothelioma Act
2006
S.2(1) Damages Act 1996
Periodical payment order for personal injury at discretion of court
S.1A FAA
Bereavement at £12,980
Year of LR(MP)A
1934
S.4 CPA
Defences
Detection of crime defence to harassment
S.1(3)(a) PHA
Year of CN Act
1945
Inability to decide MCA
S.3 MCA
Section 3 PHA ‘97
Civil remedies
S.24 Police and Criminal Evidence Act
Constable and citizen arrest
Defences CPA
S.4 CPA
Impairment or disturbance MCA
S.2 MCA
S.45 CPA
Disease/physical/mental impairment for physical injury
Section 4(3)(a) MCA
Consider possibility of future capacity
What Act does not allow defence of truth for spent criminal convictions?
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1968
Section 24 MCA
Advance refusal to treatment
Supplier if no identification of producer
S.2(2)(3) CPA
Act on planning permission being statutory
Planning Act 2006
Year of Harassment Act
1997
EU D 2009/48/EC
Toy Safety
S.2(2)(3) CPA
Supplier if no identification of producer
Year of Occupiers’ Liability Act (x2)
1957 and 1984
What Act contains stop and search/constable arrest
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
AJA 1982 effect
No consideration of lost earnings/life expectation in LR(MP)A ‘34
S.1 FAA
Outlines dependants
S.1(2)(c) CPA
Good/electricity/product… manufactured, won or abstracted
Year of Equality Act
2010
Environmental Protection Act year
1990
S.2(2)(b) CPA
Brander
Year of Criminal Justice Act
2003
Year of Theatres Act
1968
Section of Road Traffic Act 1988
S.149
Section of CJA 2003 on provocation
s.329
Damage CPA
S.5
Good/electricity/product… manufactured, won or abstracted CPA
Good/electricity/product… manufactured, won or abstractedS.1(2)(c) CPA
Three Acts when looking at BoD
Compensation Act 2006; Social Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015; Consumer Protection Act 1987
Year of Act enacting Leveson Report
2013
Name of act for claim by dependents when V dies
Fatal Accidents Act 1976
Year of Courts and Legal Services Act
1990
Periodical payment order for other loss in personal injury if consent
S.2(2) Damages Act 1996
LR(MP)A 1934 s.1(1)
Excludes defamation
Year of Consumer Protection Act
1987
know or ought to know in PHA ‘97
S.1
Prisons Act 1952
Lawful imprisonment
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
Stop and search powers etc.
Putting people in fear of violence in PHA
S.4
S.3(3) FAA
Exclude consideration of possibility of remarrying
Name of capacity Act
Mental Capacity Act 2005
Year of Defamation Act (most recent)
2013
S.1 Police and Criminal Evidence Act
Stop and search
Civil remedy in PHA ‘97
S.3
Name of mesothelioma Act
Compensation Act 2006
Act on occupation of land for omissions
Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 and 1984
Section of Courts and Legal Services Act allowing reduction if damages excessive/inadequate in defamation
s.8
Toy Safety Directive
2009/48/EC
Importer CPA
S.2(2)(c) CPA
Two Acts which allow auditors to limit liability
Companies Act 2006 and Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000
Act making up half the reasoning in Murphy
Defective Premises Act 1972
Section 5 MCA
Defence for medical treatment if (4)
Year of AJA on LR(MP)A
1982
S.1(2) CPA
Producer - person who won/manufactured/abstracted
S.117 Police and Criminal Evidence Act
Reasonable force
S.2(3) Damages Act 1996
Reasonably secure for PPO
Name of Act for claims by deceased’s estate
LR(MP)A 1934
S.1(1) CPA ‘87
Interpret
Two Defamation Acts
Defamation Act 1996 and 2013
S.1(3)(a) PHA
Detection of crime defence to harassment
Name of Harassment Act
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Name of amendment to LR(MP)A ‘34
Administration of Justice Act 1982
Course of conduct in PHA
S.7
