Criminal law worksheet with answers

In Dutch criminal law, what distinguishes "moord" (Article 289 Sr) from "doodslag" (Article 287 Sr)?

1. AMoord can only be committed against a police officer
2. BMoord requires premeditation (voorbedachte raad)
3. CMoord requires more than one victim
4. DMoord requires the use of a weapon

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 Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
3. CThe Human Rights Act 1998
4. DThe Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

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. CA principal offender
4. DAn accessory (secondary party)

Two adult friends agree to a fist fight in the street, and one breaks the other's nose. Following A-G's Reference (No 6 of 1980), consent is:

1. AA defence only if the fight was planned in advance
2. BA full defence, because both adults freely agreed to the fight and accepted the risk of injury
3. CRelevant only to the sentence and never to guilt
4. DNo defence, because a street fight causing actual bodily harm is not in the public interest

A, a lifeguard paid to watch a pool, reads a magazine while a child drowns. A could be liable for an omission because of:

1. AHaving created the dangerous situation
2. BA special relationship with the child's parents
3. CA contractual duty to act
4. DBeing the only person who saw the child

In English law, the test for dishonesty in theft is now set out in:

1. AIvey v Genting Casinos
2. BDonoghue v Stevenson
3. CR v Ghosh
4. DR v Cunningham

Which statement about "noodweerexces" (excessive self-defence) in Dutch law (Article 41(2) Sr) is correct?

1. AAny excessive force is always justified
2. BThe excess is justified whenever the defender reasonably feared further attacks from the same person later
3. CThe excess is excused if directly caused by a strong emotional disturbance resulting from the attack
4. DIt applies only to police officers

In R v Malcherek and Steel (1981), doctors switched off life-support machines after diagnosing brain death. The court held:

1. AThe doctors became the legal cause of death by deliberately switching off the machines
2. BSwitching off did not break the chain; the original assailants caused the deaths
3. CThe victims died of natural causes in law
4. DThe defendants were guilty only of attempted murder