Constitutional law worksheet with answers

Section 3 of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 requires courts to:

1. ARead and give effect to legislation compatibly with Convention rights, so far as possible
2. BFollow every judgment of the Strasbourg court
3. CAsk Parliament to interpret unclear statutes
4. DStrike down any provision of an Act that cannot be read compatibly with Convention rights

A writ of habeas corpus:

1. AOrders a public body to perform a statutory duty
2. BAllows the police to detain a suspect without charge for up to a week while a court reviews the evidence against them
3. CRequires a detained person to be brought before a court so that the legality of the detention can be tested
4. DPermits the government to search private homes

The United Kingdom's constitution is best described as:

1. AFully written in one document
2. BCopied from the US constitution
3. CSet out entirely in EU treaties
4. DLargely uncodified

Under Porter v Magill, the test for apparent bias asks whether:

1. AA fair-minded and informed observer would conclude there was a real possibility of bias
2. BThe claimant personally and reasonably believed that the decision-maker had been biased against them
3. CThe decision-maker was actually biased
4. DThe decision-maker had ever met any party

In the Factortame litigation, while the UK was an EU member, the House of Lords:

1. AHeld that EU law could never limit Acts of Parliament
2. BDeclared the European Communities Act 1972 invalid
3. CReferred the matter to the European Court of Human Rights
4. DDisapplied parts of an Act of Parliament that conflicted with EU law

In Dudgeon v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that criminalising consensual homosexual acts between adult men in Northern Ireland:

1. AViolated the right to respect for private life under Article 8
2. BViolated only the right to marry
3. CWas outside the scope of the Convention
4. DWas justified under Article 8(2) as necessary to protect public morals

Under Article 15 of the ECHR, a state may derogate from some obligations in time of war or public emergency, but not from:

1. AArticle 3 (torture) and Article 4(1) (slavery), among others
2. BArticle 11 (assembly)
3. CArticle 5 (liberty) and Article 6 (fair trial), among others
4. DArticle 8 (private life)

A woman with a terminal illness asks for a guarantee that her husband will not be prosecuted for helping her die. In Pretty v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that Article 2:

1. ADoes not include a right to die
2. BRequires an immunity for her husband
3. CRequires states to allow assisted suicide
4. DWas not engaged by her case at all