Criminal law worksheet with answers

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

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

What is the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales?

1. A16
2. B12
3. C14
4. D10

In England and Wales, which body decides on charges in most serious cases and conducts public prosecutions?

1. AThe Crown Prosecution Service
2. BThe Magistrates' Association
3. CThe Law Commission
4. DThe Home Office

D throws a glass of beer over V intending only to wet her; the glass slips and cuts V. Following R v Savage, D's liability under section 47 OAPA requires:

1. AIntention to cause actual bodily harm
2. BForesight that grievous bodily harm would be caused
3. COnly the mens rea of assault or battery, with no foresight of harm needed
4. DForesight that at least some actual bodily harm would result from the assault

D takes V's bag and is seen; a few seconds later D ties V up to escape. Following R v Hale, D is guilty of robbery because:

1. AAppropriation is a continuing act, so the force was used at the time of the theft
2. BThe bag was later recovered by the police
3. CTying up a victim is robbery even without theft
4. DAny force used on the victim within an hour of the theft automatically turns it into robbery

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

In Sweet v Parsley (1970), a landlady was convicted of being concerned in the management of premises used for smoking cannabis. The House of Lords:

1. AUpheld the conviction because drug offences are always strict liability in order to protect public health
2. BQuashed the conviction, holding that mens rea is presumed unless Parliament clearly excludes it
3. CHeld that cannabis offences require a commercial purpose
4. DHeld that landladies have a duty to search their tenants

Conspiracy in English law requires:

1. AAt least one of the conspirators to have carried out an overt act towards committing the agreed crime
2. BAn agreement between two or more people to commit a crime, with intent that it be carried out
3. CThe crime to be actually committed
4. DA written plan