Answer to last week's quiz

Here's the answer to last week's quiz:

The common name for a business structure that is a non-profit making organisation run for the benefit of others is a _________.

B. Charity

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Law Quiz 19 December 2015

Hi all, Legal English quiz time from Legal English Books :)

Please post your answers below:

The common name for a business structure that is a non-profit making organisation run for the benefit of others is a _________.

A. Partnership

B. Charity

C. Consortium

D. Venture

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Dating a Contract

Calling all international lawyers and law students :) - What is the missing word?

A commercial contract will usually start with the date. Common wording for this could be “This agreement is made __ 28th July 2014.”

a) on
b) at
c) in
d) for

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An odd case :)

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Happy Saturday all !  How about this for an odd legal case:

Pearson v. Chung

"Better known as the “pants lawsuit”, was a civil case filed in 2005 by Roy L. Pearson, Jr., an administrative law judge in the District of Columbia in the United States.
It came as a result of a dispute with a dry cleaning company over a lost pair of trousers.
Pearson sued for £40million for inconvenience, mental anguish and fees for representing himself, as a result of their failure, in Pearson’s opinion, to live up to a “satisfaction guaranteed” sign that was displayed in the store.
Pearson lost the case but only after after four years of trying every legal avenue to win."

Does "satisfaction guaranteed" = £40 million?  :)

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What is the missing word?

The verb to e______ means to sign and date the contract to confirm all the parties agree to the terms and give the agreement a date.

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The "Mcdonalds Coffee" case

This is an interesting case:

What do you think?

In probably the most famous example of a seemingly trivial legal action is Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants,also known as the McDonald’s coffee case and the hot coffee lawsuit

In 1992 Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, bought a cup of coffee from a drive through McDonalds and as she removed the lid spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.

She was wearing cotton sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks, and groin.

Hospitalized for eight days while she underwent skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment she sued the fast food giant claiming it was too hot and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment.

She won an astonishing £1.7million.

Was the jury correct to award damages?

Did the claimant deserve such an award?

Please tell us what you think :)