Introduction to Law: cram pack

Sailors are promised extra wages for sailing a ship home after two crew members desert, but they do no more than their contract already required. In Stilk v Myrick the promise was:

1. AUnenforceable for lack of consideration
2. BEnforceable as a practical benefit
3. CUnenforceable because it was made at sea
4. DEnforceable because the captain agreed freely

A distribution agreement says it is not a formal or legal agreement and is "binding in honour only". In Rose and Frank v Crompton, the court held:

1. AThe agreement was binding despite those words
2. BThe agreement itself was not legally binding
3. CThe agreement was void as illegal
4. DThe agreement was a deed and binding

A cricket ball is hit out of a ground very rarely and injures a passer-by. In Bolton v Stone, the club was:

1. ANegligent, because it did not stop playing cricket
2. BNot negligent, because the risk was very small
3. CStrictly liable for anything leaving the ground
4. DNegligent, because the injury was foreseeable

A council's water pipe to a block of flats leaks and causes an embankment to collapse, exposing a gas main. In Transco v Stockport MBC, the House of Lords held:

1. AThere was no Rylands liability, because supplying water by pipe was not a non-natural use
2. BThe council was strictly liable for all escaping water
3. CThe council was liable in negligence for the leak
4. DRylands v Fletcher was abolished in English law

Under the UK Human Rights Act 1998, if a court cannot read an Act compatibly with Convention rights, it can:

1. ARefer the case to the European Court of Human Rights automatically
2. BMake a declaration of incompatibility, leaving the Act in force
3. CStrike down the Act immediately
4. DOrder Parliament to amend the Act within a month

Walter Bagehot described the "efficient secret" of the English constitution as:

1. AThe strict separation of all three powers
2. BThe monarch's power to veto legislation
3. CThe independence of the House of Lords
4. DThe close union of the executive and legislative powers

D takes his own car from a garage without paying for repairs. Following R v Turner (No 2), D can be guilty of theft because:

1. AThe car was worth more after the repairs
2. BD intended to return the car later
3. COwners who take back their own property are always acting dishonestly
4. DProperty belongs to anyone who has possession or control of it

Gross negligence manslaughter in English law (R v Adomako) requires:

1. AIntention to kill
2. BSubjective recklessness about death
3. CA duty of care, breach causing death, and negligence so bad that it should be criminal
4. DAn unlawful and dangerous act causing death, judged objectively by sober and reasonable people

Under the Lisbon voting rules, a blocking minority in the Council must include at least:

1. AHalf of the member states
2. BTwo member states
3. CFour member states
4. DTen member states

In Les Verts v European Parliament (1986), the Court held that acts of the Parliament intended to have legal effects on third parties:

1. ACan only be challenged by member states
2. BAre immune from review because the Parliament is directly elected by the citizens
3. CAre reviewable only by national constitutional courts
4. DCan be challenged, because the Community is based on the rule of law