Criminal law worksheet with answers

In English law, a "wound" for section 20 OAPA 1861 requires:

1. AAny visible bruise on the body
2. BLoss of consciousness
3. CA break in both layers of the skin
4. DA broken bone

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 that the victim consented to in advance
4. DA killing with the mens rea for murder where a partial defence applies

Which Act provides the statutory framework for reasonable force in self-defence and householder cases in England and Wales?

1. AThe Sexual Offences Act 2003
2. BThe Human Rights Act 1998
3. CThe Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
4. DThe Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

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

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

Causation in criminal law requires that the defendant's act was:

1. AIntended to cause the result in every case
2. BA factual and legal cause of the result
3. CMorally wrong
4. DThe only cause of the result

In R v Cheshire, the court held that negligent medical treatment of a gunshot victim:

1. AMakes the doctors liable for murder
2. BDid not break the chain of causation unless it was so independent and potent that the original wound became insignificant
3. CAlways breaks the chain of causation
4. DBroke the chain of causation whenever it was negligent enough to be the immediate medical cause of death, even if the wound still operated

Conspiracy in English law requires:

1. AAn agreement between two or more people to commit a crime, with intent that it be carried out
2. BAt least one of the conspirators to have carried out an overt act towards committing the agreed crime
3. CA written plan
4. DThe crime to be actually committed