SQE1 sample questions

Question 110

A company (‘the Employer’) employs a man and a woman as builders. The Employer is carrying out the refurbishment of a hotel. The man and the woman are both working on the hotel refurbishment and their work involves erecting steel rods into the original ceiling to support it.

One day the woman arrives at the hotel site unfit for work, having consumed a lot of alcohol the previous evening. She installs one of the steel rods carelessly which results in part of the ceiling collapsing onto the man who suffers serious injuries.

Which of the following best explains who the man can sue for compensation for his injuries?

A. The Employer only because it is solely vicariously liable.

B. The woman only because she is solely liable in negligence.

C. The woman because she is solely liable in negligence and the Employer because it is both liable in negligence and vicariously liable.

D. The woman and the Employer because both are liable solely in negligence.

E. The woman because she is solely liable in negligence and the Employer because it is solely vicariously liable.


C - The woman because she is solely liable in negligence and the Employer because it is both liable in negligence and vicariously liable.

Candidates who answered correctly: 45%


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