Introduction to Law: cram pack

Police provide extra officers at a mine during a strike, beyond what their public duty requires, at the owner's request. The owner's promise to pay is:

1. AUnenforceable, because police protection can never be consideration for a promise
2. BEnforceable, because doing more than a public duty is consideration
3. CVoid, because it is contrary to public policy
4. DEnforceable only if approved by Parliament

An act done before a promise was made can still be good consideration if:

1. AThe act was done within one year before the promise and was of some value to the promisor
2. BIt was valuable to the promisor when it was done
3. CIt was requested, payment was understood, and the promise would otherwise be enforceable
4. DThe later promise was made in writing

An occupier hires a reputable lift company to maintain a lift. The company's negligence causes an accident. Under Haseldine v Daw, the occupier is:

1. ALiable, because maintenance is non-delegable
2. BNot liable, if it reasonably chose a competent contractor
3. CLiable only if the lift is new
4. DLiable for any defect on its premises

A man is prevented from walking along part of a bridge closed for an event, but is free to go back the way he came. In Bird v Jones, the court held:

1. AThere was false imprisonment, because the bridge was public
2. BThere was an assault, because he was blocked
3. CThere was no false imprisonment, because his freedom was not totally restricted
4. DThere was false imprisonment, because he could not continue the way he wanted to go

Under ECHR case law such as Sunday Times v UK, for a restriction to be "prescribed by law", the law must be:

1. AAdequately accessible and foreseeable in its effects
2. BOlder than the Convention
3. CApproved by a referendum
4. DContained in a single written statute passed by parliament

The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 changed the office of Lord Chancellor so that:

1. AThe Lord Chief Justice, not the Lord Chancellor, is head of the judiciary in England and Wales
2. BThe Lord Chancellor became President of the Supreme Court and head of the judiciary in England
3. CThe office was abolished completely
4. DThe Lord Chancellor gained power to dismiss judges

Causation in criminal law requires that the defendant's act was:

1. AThe only cause of the result
2. BA factual and legal cause of the result
3. CMorally wrong
4. DIntended to cause the result in every case

In R v Brown (1993), the House of Lords held that consent was no defence to s47 and s20 charges arising from:

1. ATattoos applied by a licensed tattoo artist
2. BInjuries suffered in properly conducted boxing matches between consenting adults
3. CSurgery carried out without the patient's signature
4. DConsensual sado-masochistic acts between adults in private

Van Gend en Loos (1963) established that:

1. ATreaty provisions bind only the member states and never create rights for individuals before national courts
2. BDirectives have horizontal direct effect
3. CTreaty provisions can have direct effect and create rights for individuals in national courts
4. DMember states can leave the EU at will

In Säger v Dennemeyer (1991), the Court held that Article 56 TFEU requires the abolition of:

1. AOnly rules that openly discriminate on grounds of nationality
2. BAll national licensing requirements, without exception, even where they protect service recipients and are applied proportionately
3. COnly rules adopted after the provider has arrived
4. DAny restriction, even if non-discriminatory, liable to prohibit or impede the services of a provider from another member state