Criminal law worksheet with answers

Self-defence is generally a defence when the force used is:

1. APlanned in advance as revenge
2. BNecessary and reasonable in the circumstances
3. CAs strong as possible
4. DUsed after the threat has ended

A defendant who did not know what they were doing because of a severe mental disease may rely on:

1. AInsanity
2. BDuress
3. CNecessity
4. DProvocation

Diminished responsibility is a partial defence available only to a charge of:

1. AMurder
2. BTheft
3. CRape
4. DRobbery

D and V are playing a properly organised rugby match. D tackles V within the rules and V breaks a leg. D is most likely:

1. ALiable for battery, because consent is never a defence to serious bodily harm
2. BNot liable, because players consent to injuries within the rules of the game
3. CLiable for GBH, because a serious injury was caused
4. DLiable, because rugby is not a recognised sport

D puts poison in V's drink intending to kill her, but V dies of an unrelated heart attack before the poison works. D is guilty of:

1. AAttempted murder
2. BMurder
3. CNo offence at all
4. DManslaughter

D drives a car she believes is her own, but which is actually V's identical car. She is not guilty of theft because:

1. AShe is not dishonest and lacks intent to deprive another
2. BThe car was insured by V
3. CShe returned it the next morning
4. DCars cannot be stolen under the Theft Act

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

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

In English law, the partial defence of loss of control reduces murder to:

1. AInvoluntary manslaughter
2. BAn acquittal
3. CGrievous bodily harm
4. DVoluntary manslaughter