Criminal law worksheet with answers

Handling stolen goods (section 22 Theft Act 1968) requires that the defendant:

1. AKept the goods for over a month
2. BSold the goods for profit
3. CStole the goods personally
4. DKnew or believed the goods to be stolen

Under section 4 of the Theft Act 1968, which of these cannot normally be stolen?

1. AMoney
2. BLand
3. CA bicycle
4. DA bank balance

An "inchoate offence" is:

1. AAn offence that requires no mental element at all
2. BAn offence committed before the intended crime is completed, such as attempt
3. CAn offence that can only be tried in the magistrates' court
4. DAn offence committed by a child below the minimum age of criminal responsibility

D makes repeated silent phone calls to V, causing her psychiatric illness. Following R v Ireland, D can be guilty of:

1. ANo offence, because words or silence can never amount to an assault in law
2. BOnly harassment, because no force was used
3. COnly a civil wrong, because no physical harm occurred
4. DAn assault, as silent calls can cause apprehension of immediate force

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. AManslaughter
2. BAttempted murder
3. CMurder
4. DNo offence at all

D knocks over a candle by accident, sees a fire start, and walks away without doing anything. The house burns down. D is most likely:

1. ALiable only if D intended to start the fire initially
2. BNot liable, because the fire started by accident
3. CNot liable, because the law imposes no duty to act to protect property
4. DLiable, because D created a dangerous situation and failed to act

In R v Walkington (1979), D went behind a shop counter and opened a till. This was burglary because:

1. AD was carrying a weapon at the time
2. BThe till contained money at the time
3. CShops are treated as dwellings in law
4. DEntering a part of a building as a trespasser is enough

In R v Jordan (1956), the court held the chain of causation was broken because:

1. AThe victim refused a blood transfusion for religious reasons, which was unforeseeable
2. BThe medical treatment was "palpably wrong" and the wound had mainly healed
3. CThe victim had an unusually thin skull
4. DA second attacker stabbed the victim again in hospital