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BPP Tort Law GDL Revision andChapter Notes GRADED A+ Tort Revision Ch 2: Trespass to the Person Trespass to the person is the intentional cause of injury, as opposed to the negligent cause of injury. An employer can be vicariously liable for an employee who commits trespass. 1) Assault 2) ...

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BPP Tort Law GDL Revision andChapter
Notes 2023-2024 GRADED A+

Tort Revision Ch 2: Trespass to the Person


Trespass to the person is the intentional cause of injury, as opposed to the negligent cause of
injury. An employer can be vicariously liable for an employee who commits trespass.

1) Assault
2) Battery
3) The Rule in Wilkinson v Downton
4) False Imprisonment
Actionable per se: without proof of damage and require an act, not an omission

Battery
“the direct and intentional application of force by D to C without lawfuljustification”.

1) Intentional
a) Letang v Cooper: Negligence is not enough to show intentionality
b) Fowler v Lanning: C was shot by D. There would have been no trespass ifthe
shooting was caused unintentionally.
c) Innes v Wylle: Must be an act, not an omission.
d) Livingstone v MOD: Transferred malice still applies
2) Direct
a) Reynolds v Clarke: Includes if someone throws something on a road insomeone’s
path.
b) Fagan v CMP: Did not remove car from policeman’s foot. This was an act,not an
omission.
c) Dodwell v Burford: D struck a horse that C was sitting on = direct.
d) DPP v K: boy hid acid in hand-dryer = direct.
3) Application of Force
a) Any physical contact
i) Cole v Turner: “the least touch of another in anger is a battery”
ii) R v Cotesworth : spitting
iii) Nash v Sheen: applying hair dye
4) Hostility
a) Wilson v Pringle: “it must be a question of fact”
5) Defences
a) Consent
i) Express = consent to broad nature and terms of medical procedure(Chatterton
v Gerson)
ii) Implied = getting on a tube at rush hour (Re F)
iii) R v Tabassum: patient consented to medical exam but D was notmedically
qualified. Consent invalid.
iv) R v Brown: consent invalid for ABH
b) Necessity (Re A (Conjoined Twins))
i) the act is needed to avoid inevitable and irreparable evil

,ii) no more should be done than reasonably necessary
iii) the evil inflicted must not be disproportionate to the evil avoided

, c) Self-Defence
i) Defence of person and property
ii) Cockroft v Smith: bit off finger to avoid being poked in the eye
iii) Bird v Holbrook: spring gun not acceptable to protect property
iv) Lane v Holloway: what is reasonable depends on the facts
d) Statutory Authority
i) Lawful arrest and detention
e) Reasonable Chastisement
i) Consider nature, context, duration, mental and physical consequences,age and
personal characteristics of the child, reasons for punishment.
f) Contributory Negligence is N/A (Co-Op v Pritchard)
g) Inevitable Accident


Assault
“an act that produces in C a reasonable expectation of immediate, unlawful force”
– R v Beasley

1) Intentional Act
a) Can be words without gestures (R v Wilson: “get out the knives”)
b) Silence can be assault (R v Ireland)
c) Words can negate gestures (Tuberville v Savage: hand on sword + “if itwere not
assize time I would not take such language”).
2) Apprehension of Immediate Battery
a) A threat to future harm may not be enough (Thomas v NUM: miners whowere
striking threatened to hurt him, but he was in a protected vehicle).
b) Effect on a reasonable person, not subjective apprehension (R v St George)
c) ‘Immediate’ can be any time in the near future (R v Ireland: silent phonecalls).
3) Defences – Same as Battery


The Rule in Wilkinson v Downton
Essentially practical jokes that cause harm.

In Wilkinson v Downton D told C that her husband had been badly injured in anaccident. C
suffered nervous shock and D was held liable.

1) Deliberate acts or words
2) Calculated to cause harm to the claimant
3) Unlawfully


False Imprisonment
“an act of D that directly and intentionally causes the complete restriction of C’sliberty without
lawful justification”

1) Intentional Act
a) Accidently locking someone in is not false imprisonment (Sayer v Harlow)

, 2) Imprisonment
a) C’s liberty must be restricted in all directions (Bird v Jones: was not allowed to walk
across a bridge = not false imprisonment)
b) They are only expected to take reasonable means to gain their freedom
c) C does not need to be aware that he is being imprisoned (Meering v Grahame-White
Aviation: employee was locked in office b/c suspected of theft. Asked to wait there).
d) No need for actual force (Davidson v CCNW: “stay here or I’ll kill you”)
3) False
a) Without lawful justification
i) Lawful includes contractual obligations (Robinson v Balmain New Ferry: refused to
pay a penny to get through a turnstile; Herd v Weardale Steel: miner refused to
continue his shift and demanded to be brought to surface = no false
imprisonment).
b) Wrongful continuation of lawful imprisonment can be false imprisonment (Toumia v
Evans: locked in cell for longer than usual b/c of prison officers’ dispute).
4) Defences – Same as Battery

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