Constitutional law worksheet with answers

Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits discrimination:

1. AOnly by private employers
2. BIn the enjoyment of the other Convention rights
3. CIn every area of life, as a free-standing right
4. DOnly on grounds of nationality

In a parliamentary system, the government usually depends on:

1. AThe approval of the courts
2. BThe support of the head of state only
3. CThe confidence of parliament
4. DA referendum every year

Judicial review allows courts to:

1. ACheck whether public bodies act lawfully
2. BRewrite any legislation they consider unwise
3. CDecide elections
4. DAppoint government ministers

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

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

In Soering v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that extraditing a man to the US to face a possible death sentence would breach Article 3 because:

1. AThe death penalty itself always amounts to torture under Article 3
2. BOf the extreme conditions and long wait on death row
3. CThe US is not a party to the Convention
4. DHe would not receive a fair trial

To bring a claim for judicial review in England and Wales, the claimant must have:

1. ASuffered financial loss
2. BA sufficient interest in the matter
3. CPermission from the minister
4. DA contract with the public body

A statute says a commission's "determination ... shall not be called in question in any court of law". In Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission, the House of Lords held:

1. AThe clause excluded all judicial review
2. BThe clause was invalid as unconstitutional
3. CThe decision was immune from review because the ouster clause applied to all its determinations
4. DThe clause did not protect a decision based on an error of law, because that was a nullity

Soldiers shoot dead three suspected terrorists in Gibraltar. In McCann v UK, the European Court of Human Rights found a breach of Article 2 because:

1. AThe operation was not planned and controlled to minimise the use of lethal force
2. BThe UK had not ratified the Convention for Gibraltar
3. CAny killing by state agents breaches Article 2
4. DThe soldiers acted out of personal hatred