Criminal law worksheet with answers

Which is the difference between theft and robbery in English law?

1. ATheft is always more serious than robbery
2. BRobbery involves only cars
3. CRobbery is theft accompanied by force or the threat of force
4. DRobbery does not require taking property

A person who helps or encourages another to commit a crime, without carrying out the act themselves, is called:

1. AAn innocent agent
2. BA co-defendant witness
3. CAn accessory (secondary party)
4. DA principal offender

In English law, "voluntary manslaughter" refers to:

1. AA killing caused by an unlawful and dangerous act, without intent to kill
2. BA killing caused by gross negligence at work
3. CA killing with the mens rea for murder where a partial defence applies
4. DA killing that the victim consented to in advance

Gang members threaten D to make her rob a post office. D had joined the gang knowing it used violence. Following R v Hasan, D:

1. ACan rely on duress only if the robbery failed
2. BCan rely on duress because the threat was real, immediate and impossible for her to escape
3. CCannot rely on duress because she voluntarily associated with violent criminals
4. DCan rely on necessity instead of duress

D parks his car on a police officer's foot by accident, then refuses to move it once told. Under Fagan v MPC, this is:

1. AA battery, because the act was continuing when the mens rea arose
2. BNo offence, because the original act was accidental and mens rea arose only afterwards
3. COnly criminal damage to the officer's shoe
4. DA mere omission without any duty to act

D takes a college exam paper, reads it and returns it, planning to cheat. Following Oxford v Moss, D did not steal because:

1. AThe paper itself was returned, so there was no intention to deprive
2. BD was a student at the college
3. CExam papers have no economic value
4. DConfidential information is not property under the Theft Act

Under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, an organisation is guilty if the way its activities are managed causes death and amounts to a gross breach of a duty of care, and:

1. AThe organisation intended to cause death
2. BA single identified director is first personally convicted of gross negligence manslaughter
3. CThe victim was an employee of the organisation
4. DThe way senior management organised the activities was a substantial element of the breach

R v Gomez (1993) held that an appropriation in theft:

1. ARequires a physical taking of the property
2. BOnly occurs when the defendant leaves the shop
3. CRequires that the act was not authorised by the owner, even if consent was obtained by fraud
4. DCan occur even when the owner consents, if the consent was obtained by deception