Criminal law worksheet with answers

Necessity was rejected as a defence to murder in the famous shipwreck case of:

1. AR v Collins
2. BR v Brown
3. CR v Miller
4. DR v Dudley and Stephens

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

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

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

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

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

1. ACannot rely on a drunken mistaken belief in self-defence
2. BCan always rely on any honest belief, however it arose, in self-defence
3. CIs automatically guilty of murder
4. DHas a complete defence of intoxication

D supplies heroin to V, an adult, who freely and knowingly injects herself and dies. According to R v Kennedy (No 2), D is:

1. AGuilty of unlawful act manslaughter, because supplying a class A drug is itself unlawful and dangerous
2. BGuilty of manslaughter, because supply always causes the death
3. CGuilty of manslaughter, because V's choice is irrelevant
4. DNot guilty of manslaughter, because V's free and informed choice broke the chain of causation

For malicious wounding or inflicting GBH under section 20 OAPA, the defendant must at least have foreseen:

1. AThat the victim would die
2. BNothing, because it is strict liability
3. CThat serious harm would certainly result
4. DThat some physical harm might result

In R v Windle (1952), the court interpreted "wrong" in the M'Naghten Rules to mean:

1. AWrong in the eyes of a doctor
2. BMorally wrong by society's standards
3. CWrong according to the defendant's own beliefs
4. DLegally wrong

In the Dutch "Melk-en-water" judgment (Hoge Raad, 1916), the court recognised:

1. AAbsence of all blame (AVAS) as an unwritten excuse
2. BThe legality principle as part of the Constitution
3. CConditional intent as a form of intention
4. DForce majeure as a written justification