Assignment 1

SPECIFIC TORTS (4LA008 / 5LA008)

Assignment

Mick Heavy is a farmer who hosts an annual music festival on his land, which attracts upwards
of 80,000 people. What is his liability (if any) under the Occupiers' Liability Acts in the
following situations?

i) Concerned at the number of people who gain access to the festival without buying a ticket, Mick hires the services of Jobsworth to erect a steel fence around the festival site. The fencing consists of interlocking sections, some of which have particularly sharp edges. Freeloader, a fifty-something year old hippy, has attended the festival since its first year in 1975. For the first ten years, there was no admission charge and Freeloader, who is totally opposed, on ideological grounds, to admission charges to festivals, has since managed to secure admission without paying.

This year, Freeloader decides to climb over the fence and loses a finger when it is caught in between two fence sections. To add insult to injury, his new Afghan coat, purchased recently from the bazaar in Marrakesh, is badly torn.

ii) Moondance, having attended all three days of the festival, contracts a serious disease. It seems that this is a consequence of her having engaged in nude mudsliding on the second day of the festival, when it rained incessantly. The disease is transmitted by cattle and, prior to the festival, Mick had been grazing cattle in the fields in which the festival took place.

iii) Mucus, a punk band from the early eighties, are persuaded to reform for the festival. As is their way, they set up all their own equipment prior to their set. Mick Snot, the lead singer, and Flick Bogey, the bass guitarist, suffer first degree burns as a result of being electrocuted whilst playing an encore to an enthusiastic crowd.

Assessment Criteria

In arriving at an assessment, particular attention will be paid to the following:

i) your ability to identify the relevant legal principles
ii) the appropriateness of legal authorities
iii) application of the law to the facts
iv) the clarity and cogency of argument.

This assignment embraces Learning Outcome 1, i.e. that you will be able to demonstrate a sufficient understanding of (evaluate if studying the module at Level 5) an aspect of the law of torts by its application to a problem situation.


Assignments of about 1500 words in length should be handed in to the Student Support Centre by Monday 15th March 2010

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