Passage-Based Questions on Torts Law for CLAT PG

We hold that the capital outlays on the hospital and its operational expenses for providing free treatment and services to the victims should, both on humanitarian considerations and in fulfillment of the offer made before the Bhopal Court, be borne by the UCC and UCIL, We are conscious that it is not part of the function of this Court to reshape the settlement of restructure its terms.

This aspect of the further liability is also not a matter on which the UCC and the UCIL had an opportunity to express their views. However, from the tenor of the written submissions made before the District Court at Bhopal in response to the proposal of the Court for “reconciliatory substantial interim relief” to the gas victims, both the UCC and UCIL had offered to fund and provide a hospital for the gas victims. The UCC had recalled that in January, 1986, it had offered “to fund the construction of a hospital for the treatment of gas victims the amount being contributed by the UCC and the UCIL in equal proportions”. Shri Nariman had also referred to this offer during the submissions in the context of the bona fides of the UCC in that behalf.

It is, no doubt, true that the offer was made in a different context and before an overall settlement. But that should not detract the UCC and the UCIL from fulfilling these obligations as, indeed, the moral sensibilities to the immense need for relief in all forms and ways should make both the UCC and UCIL forthcoming in this behalf. Such a hospital should be fully equipped hospital with provision for maintenance for a period of eight years which in our estimate might together involve the financial outlay of around Rs. 50 crores. We hope and trust that UCC and UCIL will not be found wanting in this behalf.

a) Justice Kuldip Singh
b) Justice Sujata Manohar
c) Justice S. Ratanavel Pandian
d) Justice A.M Ahmadi

a) 2 judge bench
b) 3 judge bench
c) 5 judge bench
d) 7 judge bench

a) Corporate Liability
b) Strict Liability
c) Absolute Liability
d) All of the Above

a) Justice A.M Ahmadi
b) Justice N.D Ojha
c) Justice Abdul Nazeer
d) Justice Arun Mishra

a) Environment Protection Act, 1986
b) Public Insurance Liability Act, 1991
c) All of the Above
d) None of the Above

a) Article 47
b) Article 21
c) Article 48
d) Article 49

a) Union Carbide Corporation Ltd .V. Union of India and Ors
b) M.C Mehta .V. Union of India
c) Subash Kumar .V. State of Bihar
d) Taj Trapezium Case

a) Doctrine of Sub judice
b) Doctrine of parens patriae
c) Doctrine of stare decisis
d) None of the above

a) Strict Liability
b) Due Liability
c) Vicarious Liability
d) No fault liability

a) Section 9
b) Section 8
c) Section 7
d) Section 10

a) Justice Krishnan Iyer
b) Justice Y.C Chandrachud
c) Justice P.N Bhagwati
d) Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose

a) Jurisdictional Overreach
b) Lack of Fair Hearing
c) Reference to Strict and Absolute Liability
d) All of the Above

a) Section 480
b) Section 481
c) Section 482
d) Section 483

a) Order XX
b) Order XXI
c) Order XXII
d) Order XXIII

a) Article 142
b) Article 141
c) Article 140
d) Article 143