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Practice Tort Law FE-1 questions

20 past-paper-style questions across 2 years (2024, 2023). Marking schemes + Distinction-grade model answers + AI grader.

Tort Law

Negligence, occupier's liability, defamation, nuisance, trespass, vicarious liability, damages. Heavy overlap with constitutional fundamental rights.

Dominant casebooks

  • McMahon & Binchy · Law of Torts (Bloomsbury)
  • Quill · Torts in Ireland (Gill)

Landmark cases

  • Glencar Exploration plc v Mayo County Council (No 2) [2002] 1 IR 84

    Caparo three-stage test imported into Irish negligence.

  • Hanrahan v Merck, Sharp & Dohme (Ireland) [1988] ILRM 629

    Burden of proof in nuisance — environmental harm.

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