Criminal law worksheet with answers

The defence of duress requires a threat of:

1. ADeath or serious injury
2. BDamage to one's property
3. CPublic embarrassment
4. DLosing one's job

In English law, a battery is:

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

Under the Criminal Damage Act 1971, criminal damage by fire is charged as:

1. ABurglary
2. BAggravated theft
3. CArson
4. DAffray

During a burglary, D has handed a knife to an accomplice. When someone arrives, D says "come on, let's go" and climbs out; the accomplice stabs the person. Following R v Becerra, D's withdrawal is:

1. AIrrelevant, because once an accessory has supplied a weapon, no later act of withdrawal can ever relieve them of liability
2. BEffective, because D left before the crime was completed
3. CNot effective, because withdrawal must be timely and unequivocal and may need more than words once violence is imminent
4. DEffective, because any words of withdrawal are always enough

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

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. ANo offence at all
2. BManslaughter
3. CMurder
4. DAttempted murder

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

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

In Re A (Conjoined Twins) (2001), the Court of Appeal allowed surgery that would kill the weaker twin to save the stronger. This is often cited as authority that:

1. ADoctors can never be liable for murder
2. BNecessity can, in very exceptional circumstances, justify an act that causes death
3. CParental consent is a defence to homicide
4. DNecessity is a general defence to murder whenever more lives would be saved than lost