King’s Inns BL Law of Tort — 2020 Model Answers
The five Law of Tort questions from the 2020 King’s Inns Barrister-at-Law entrance examination, each with an independently authored LawShortcut model answer. Question 1 is the compulsory problem; Questions 2—5 carry 25 marks each.
Back in 1990 , Local Authority Z mistakenly issued A Ltd with planning permission to construct and run a recycling plant on a rural site. Relying on that permission, A Ltd spent…
Full model answer covers 15 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2020 Question 1 model answer →Comres Ltd is a well-established national estate agency and surveying practice. In 2018 it handled the sale of an office block owned by A Ltd and, in its brochure, put the floor…
Full model answer covers 5 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2020 Question 2 model answer →A consignment of screen protectors, phone covers and headphones arrived at Mr A's shop and sat by the back door for several days. A rival trader, Mr B , took it away.…
Full model answer covers 4 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2020 Question 3 model answer →The Daily Page ran an investigation into senators' expenses. It uncovered exaggerated claims by some senators but turned up nothing implicating Senator A . Even so, it published, in both its print…
Full model answer covers 5 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2020 Question 4 model answer →This is an essay question with no fact pattern. Candidates are invited to evaluate, in a critical way, how the higher courts have construed the Statute of Limitations 1957 together with the…
Full model answer covers 9 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2020 Question 5 model answer →