Criminal law worksheet with answers

In Dutch criminal law, "noodweer" (Article 41(1) Sr) is:

1. AA form of preparation for committing a crime
2. BAn excuse based on a strong emotional disturbance caused by an unlawful attack
3. CA rule allowing police to stop and search people
4. DA justification for necessary defence against an immediate unlawful attack

An omission (failure to act) can lead to criminal liability when:

1. AAny person failed to help a stranger
2. BThe defendant had a legal duty to act
3. CNever, in any legal system
4. DThe defendant was asleep

In English law, which court tries the most serious (indictable-only) offences such as murder?

1. AThe Court of Appeal
2. BThe magistrates' court
3. CThe county court
4. DThe Crown Court

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. ANo defence, because a street fight causing actual bodily harm is not in the public interest
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. DA defence only if the fight was planned in advance

Involuntary intoxication can be a defence when:

1. AThe offence is a strict liability offence
2. BThe defendant was less inhibited but still formed intent
3. CThe defendant chose to drink heavily
4. DIt meant the defendant lacked the required mens rea

D takes a college exam paper, reads it and returns it, planning to cheat. Following Oxford v Moss, D did not steal because:

1. AExam papers have no economic value
2. BD was a student at the college
3. CConfidential information is not property under the Theft Act
4. DThe paper itself was returned, so there was no intention to deprive

In R v Cheshire, the court held that negligent medical treatment of a gunshot victim:

1. AAlways breaks the chain of causation
2. BMakes the doctors liable for murder
3. CBroke the chain of causation whenever it was negligent enough to be the immediate medical cause of death, even if the wound still operated
4. DDid not break the chain of causation unless it was so independent and potent that the original wound became insignificant

In R v G (2003), the House of Lords defined recklessness as:

1. AIntention to cause harm
2. BAny careless behaviour
3. CFailure to notice an obvious risk that a reasonable person would have seen
4. DAwareness of a risk that it was unreasonable to take in the circumstances