What’s on the Defences poster
A 5-row table: Defence · Requires · Effect.
Defence and effect.
- Contributory negligence — Claimant partly at fault — Damages reduced
- Consent — Free, informed acceptance of risk — Complete defence
- Illegality — Claim arises from claimant's crime — May bar the claim
- Limitation — Claim brought out of time — Bars the claim
- Necessity — Action taken to prevent worse harm — May excuse
Educational reference. Consent to the risk of negligence is construed narrowly; awareness of a risk is not the same as accepting it.
Questions about the Defences poster
- What’s on the Defences (Tort) poster?
- A 5-row table: Defence · Requires · Effect. Defence and effect. Contributory negligence — Claimant partly at fault — Damages reduced; Consent — Free, informed acceptance of risk — Complete defence; Illegality — Claim arises from claimant's crime — May bar the claim; Limitation — Claim brought out of time — Bars the claim; Necessity — Action taken to prevent worse harm — May excuse. Educational reference. Consent to the risk of negligence is construed narrowly; awareness of a risk is not the same as accepting it.
- Who is the Defences (Tort) poster for?
- Defences (Tort) belongs to the Law section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tort can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Defences (Tort) poster?
- Some defeat the claim entirely; others reduce the damages. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Defences (Tort) belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Defences (Tort)?
- Causation, Damages and Defamation sit alongside Defences (Tort) in the Law section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.CausationDamagesDefamation
- Is the Defences (Tort) poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Defences (Tort) downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Law section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Defences (Tort) poster print at?
- Defences (Tort) is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Defences (Tort) loses nothing.Printing guide
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