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Law of Tort

Summative Essays 2019–2020
Law of Tort
The three questions below are designed to test the work you have undertaken in your research seminars. You must choose one question, and write a response to it, bearing in mind the list of instructions, below.
Obviously, the fourth research seminar, on comparative tort law, lies ahead of us. Given the potential disruption to their fourth research seminar that some students might suffer as a result of the planned industrial action, I am not, and will not be, providing a fourth question that requires students to draw directly on it, as has been the practice in recent years.
In effect, you all know from this point onwards, that you must approach the questions on the basis only of the materials from the first three research seminars and, thus, may begin to work on that basis.
Please read the instructions below carefully before undertaking your answer. On behalf of the whole tort team, we wish you the best of luck in developing your response in light of your hard work in seminars this year.
CP McGrath
Instructions:
• You are required to do independent research beyond the compulsory reading given for the research seminars, although that reading is, naturally, a starting point for your research.
• Engaging with the ‘Further Reading’ on the seminar reading lists counts as independent research. You are not limited to only using materials listed under the Further Reading heading of each seminar, but nor are you required to go beyond them. Rather, you are encouraged to undertake research necessary to substantiate the argument you wish to make, wherever that lead you.
• You are not expected to cite extensive sources, only those that are particularly relevant to your answer to your chosen question.
• Each question is naturally rooted in one particular research seminar’s materials. It is a requirement of the mark scheme that in your answer to any of the questions, you draw meaningfully on material from at least one other examinable research seminar (but not research seminar 4) but there is no need to refer to more than one other unless you want to.
• Simply referring briefly or cursorily to material from your chosen ‘other’ research seminar is not drawing meaningfully upon it, and essays that do this will make it difficult for the examiners to award high marks.
• Please do bear in mind that the essay accounts for 30% of your summative grade and divide your time accordingly over the coming period when you will have to balance your research and writing with your tutorial work.
• Research essays are to be a maximum of 3,000 words, including footnotes and headings within the essay (but excluding bibliographies or essay titles. Bear in mind you do not need to provide a separate bibliography, but you may do so if you wish).
• You must use the OSCOLA citation method for your essay (which is available on KEATS): this includes a requirement of pinpoint citations to the specific page or paragraph of the source of any quotation, not just the work from which it comes.
• Note that the School’s formal policy on exceeding word counts applies to this essay: that is, for every 3.33% over the word limit, an essay is deducted 1 mark, so that in cases where the word limit is 3,000 words, for every 100 words over the limit, a mark is deducted: i.e. 3001 words is one mark deducted, 3101 is two marks, etc.
• You must indicate which question you have attempted at the top of your essay. There is no need to copy the whole question, ‘Q1’ etc will suffice.
• You are reminded of the College’s policy on Academic Honesty and Integrity https://www.kcl.ac.uk/governancezone/assessment/academic-honesty-integrity.aspx.
• Under no circumstances should you share your work at any stage with any other student. It is your responsibility to avoid the risk of plagiarism and collusion.

Tort Research Essay Questions April 2020

1. Tort law is, fundamentally, a set of rules designed to achieve the appropriate allocation of benefits and burdens between all citizens, and is, as such, distributive in its structures, aims and effects. Failure to understand this, is a failure to understand tort at all.

Critically evaluate this statement

2. The importance of tort law for regulating the conduct of individuals, companies and public bodies is underestimated. Without tort law, the world would be a far more dangerous place.

Critically evaluate this statement

3. The relationship between liability in tort and recovery under the Human Rights Act 1998 must be coherent and defensible, not least because the latter has been brought about with the approval of a democratically elected Parliament who have chosen to protect claimants against actionable interferences with their most fundamental rights.

Critically evaluate this statement

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