Criminal law worksheet with answers

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

1. AAffray
2. BAggravated theft
3. CBurglary
4. DArson

Which Act provides the statutory framework for reasonable force in self-defence and householder cases in England and Wales?

1. AThe Sexual Offences Act 2003
2. BThe Human Rights Act 1998
3. CThe Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
4. DThe Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

The defence of duress requires a threat of:

1. APublic embarrassment
2. BDeath or serious injury
3. CLosing one's job
4. DDamage to one's property

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

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. BAn assault, as silent calls can cause apprehension of immediate force
3. COnly a civil wrong, because no physical harm occurred
4. DOnly harassment, because no force was used

Causation in criminal law requires that the defendant's act was:

1. AMorally wrong
2. BA factual and legal cause of the result
3. CIntended to cause the result in every case
4. DThe only cause of the result

Under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, an organisation is guilty if the way its activities are managed causes death and amounts to a gross breach of a duty of care, and:

1. AThe organisation intended to cause death
2. BA single identified director is first personally convicted of gross negligence manslaughter
3. CThe victim was an employee of the organisation
4. DThe way senior management organised the activities was a substantial element of the breach

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. CEntering a part of a building as a trespasser is enough
4. DShops are treated as dwellings in law