Introduction to Law: cram pack

At an auction in England, the contract of sale is completed when:

1. AThe bidder makes the highest bid
2. BThe auctioneer puts the item up for sale
3. CThe buyer collects the goods
4. DThe auctioneer brings down the hammer

A builder agrees to finish work for an agreed price, then demands more money. The client pays to avoid delay and gets a practical benefit. In English law (Williams v Roffey), the promise to pay more may be:

1. AEnforceable only if made in writing
2. BEnforceable, because the practical benefit can be consideration if there is no duress
3. CUnenforceable, because performing an existing contractual duty can never be good consideration
4. DA criminal offence

A doctor builds a consulting room next to a confectioner whose noisy machines had operated for years without complaint. Can the confectioner defend a nuisance claim by saying the doctor "came to the nuisance"?

1. ANo, because doctors have special protection
2. BNo, coming to the nuisance is not a defence
3. CYes, because the machines were used first
4. DYes, the doctor accepted the noise by building there

Under section 4 of the Defamation Act 2013, the public interest defence requires that:

1. AThe statement was on a matter of public interest and the defendant reasonably believed publishing it was in the public interest
2. BThe statement was on a matter of public interest and the defendant honestly believed that every factual claim it contained was true
3. CThe statement is shown to be substantially true
4. DThe statement was made in Parliament or in court

In R (Jackson) v Attorney General, the House of Lords held that:

1. AThe House of Lords could veto any bill permanently
2. BThe Parliament Act 1949 and the Hunting Act 2004 passed under it were valid
3. CActs passed under the Parliament Acts were merely invalid delegated legislation
4. DThe Hunting Act was incompatible with Convention rights

In Ireland v UK (1978), the European Court of Human Rights held that the "five techniques" used in interrogating detainees in Northern Ireland were:

1. ATorture under Article 3
2. BInhuman and degrading treatment, but not torture
3. CLawful because of the emergency
4. DA breach of Article 5 only

D drinks heavily to gain courage before killing V, as planned. Following A-G for Northern Ireland v Gallagher, D:

1. ACan only be guilty of manslaughter
2. BCan rely on intoxication because murder is a specific intent offence
3. CCannot rely on intoxication, because the intent to kill was formed before drinking
4. DHas a defence of involuntary intoxication

Conspiracy in English law requires:

1. AA written plan
2. BThe crime to be actually committed
3. CAt least one of the conspirators to have carried out an overt act towards committing the agreed crime
4. DAn agreement between two or more people to commit a crime, with intent that it be carried out

If a member state does not comply with a Court judgment finding an infringement, under Article 260(2) TFEU the Court can:

1. AExpel the state from the EU
2. BSuspend the state's voting rights in the Council
3. CImpose a lump sum or penalty payment on the state
4. DAnnul the conflicting national law itself

EU citizenship case law (Zambrano) established that a third-country national parent of a child who is an EU citizen may have a right of residence when:

1. AThe parent pays a residence fee
2. BRefusal would deprive the child of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of EU citizenship rights
3. CThe parent has lived lawfully in the child's member state for at least five years before applying for residence
4. DThe child is older than 18