Constitutional law worksheet with answers

Individual ministerial responsibility means that a minister:

1. AIs personally liable to pay damages for errors made by their civil servants
2. BIs accountable to Parliament for their department and personal conduct
3. CMust personally approve every decision of their department
4. DCan be removed from office by the courts

A writ of habeas corpus:

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

Articles 8 to 11 of the ECHR are "qualified" rights. This means that:

1. AThey can be restricted only during war or a public emergency threatening the life of the nation, under Article 15
2. BInterferences can be justified if lawful, for a legitimate aim and necessary in a democratic society
3. CThey can never be restricted in any way
4. DThey protect only qualified professionals

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. BReferred the matter to the European Court of Human Rights
3. CDeclared the European Communities Act 1972 invalid
4. DDisapplied parts of an Act of Parliament that conflicted with EU law

In Golder v UK, the European Court of Human Rights held that Article 6 includes:

1. AA right of access to a court
2. BA right to free legal aid in all cases
3. CA right to appeal to Strasbourg
4. DA right to a jury trial

Proportionality review usually asks whether a measure:

1. AWas adopted quickly
2. BPursues a legitimate aim, is suitable, necessary and balanced
3. CIs the cheapest option available and has been approved by parliament
4. DIs popular with voters

A health authority moves a severely disabled woman into a care home after promising it would be her "home for life", then decides to close it. In R v North and East Devon HA, ex p Coughlan:

1. AFrustrating her substantive legitimate expectation was an abuse of power
2. BThe promise was void because the authority had no statutory power to make it
3. COnly a fair consultation was required
4. DThe promise could be broken whenever policy changed

Officers enter a writer's house and seize his papers under a warrant issued by a Secretary of State with no legal authority to issue it. In Entick v Carrington, the court held:

1. AThe search was unlawful, because state action needs legal authority
2. BThe writer could only complain to Parliament
3. CThe search was lawful, because state necessity justified seizing the papers
4. DThe search was lawful, because the warrant was signed