buying versus leasing

Question 1. (10marks)
Using your knowledge of statutory interpretation

consider whether any of the following ‘sells or

hires or offers for sale or hire or gives to any

other person – any knife which has a blade which

opens automatically by hand pressure applied to

a button, spring or other device in or attached

to the handle of the knife’ and therefore

commits an offence under s1(1) of the

Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959:
(i) Jane, a youth worker, confiscates a flick

knife from a member of her youth club and gives

it to her supervisor.
(ii) Tony, an antique dealer, displays an old

military knife with a spring opening device in

his shop window with a price ticket attached to

it.
(iii) Fola buys an unopened box of kitchen

utensils from a car boot sale. Without examining

the contents closely she donates the box to a

charity shop.
The box is found to contain a flick knife.

Question 2 (10 marks)
Critically analyse the following case and say

whether or not you think that the plaintiff will

succeed under the tort of negligence:
John was the batsman in a cricket match. He hit

the ball so hard that it went over the brick

wall that surrounded the cricket ground over the

road outside and hit Mr Smith, who had just

opened the front door of his house. Mr Smith

sued the cricket club for negligence. Mr Smith

had a nasty injury on his head caused by the

ball. It was stated in court that the ball had

been hit over the wall only three times in the