Criminal law worksheet with answers

In English law, a battery is:

1. ACausing serious injury with a weapon
2. BCausing another to apprehend the immediate application of unlawful force
3. CAny rude remark made in public
4. DThe intentional or reckless application of unlawful force to another

Under section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957, who bears the burden of proving diminished responsibility?

1. AThe prosecution, beyond reasonable doubt
2. BThe defendant, on the balance of probabilities
3. CNobody, as the jury decides freely
4. DThe judge, on the medical evidence alone

In English law, theft is defined in section 1 of the Theft Act 1968 as:

1. ADishonestly taking property belonging to another without consent, with intention to use it and later return it
2. BUsing force to obtain property belonging to another person
3. CBorrowing property from another person without asking first
4. DDishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with intention to permanently deprive the other of it

D points a gun at his friend as a joke, both believing it will not fire. It fires and kills the friend. Following R v Lamb, there was no unlawful act manslaughter because:

1. AThere was no assault, since the friend did not apprehend any force
2. BThe gun belonged to the friend
3. CJokes cannot be criminal under English law
4. DThe death was caused by the gun malfunctioning, not by any act of D's

D gets drunk voluntarily, mistakenly believes he is being attacked and stabs V. Under English law, D:

1. AHas a complete defence of intoxication
2. BIs automatically guilty of murder
3. CCannot rely on a drunken mistaken belief in self-defence
4. DCan always rely on any honest belief, however it arose, in self-defence

Oblique (indirect) intention in English law (R v Woollin) exists when:

1. AThe defendant did not foresee any harm
2. BThe result was merely possible
3. CDeath was a foreseeable consequence that a reasonable person would have appreciated
4. DDeath or serious harm was a virtual certainty and the defendant appreciated this

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

In R v Larsonneur (1933), a French woman was convicted of being an illegal alien in the UK after being brought there by police against her will. The case illustrates:

1. AA state of affairs offence where liability arose without a voluntary act
2. BTransferred malice from the police to the defendant
3. CThe requirement of a duty for omissions
4. DThe defence of duress of circumstances excusing an involuntary immigration offence