Criminal law worksheet with answers

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

1. AA bicycle
2. BMoney
3. CA bank balance
4. DLand

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

1. AAggravated theft
2. BArson
3. CBurglary
4. DAffray

In English law, rape is defined in which statute?

1. AThe Protection from Harassment Act 1997
2. BThe Offences Against the Person Act 1861
3. CThe Sexual Offences Act 2003
4. DThe Criminal Justice Act 1988

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

1. AMorally wrong
2. BIntended to cause the result in every case
3. CThe only cause of the result
4. DA factual and legal cause of the result

D, a diabetic, takes insulin, skips food, becomes hypoglycaemic and hits V without knowing what he is doing. D may rely on:

1. ADuress of circumstances, because D was ill
2. BNon-insane automatism, because an external factor caused the episode
3. CInsanity, because diabetes is a disease affecting the functioning of the mind
4. DDiminished responsibility, because harm was caused

D buys a substance believing it is heroin and intends to sell it on. In fact it is harmless powder. Following R v Shivpuri, D is:

1. AGuilty of the full offence of dealing drugs
2. BGuilty of attempt, as impossibility is no defence under the 1981 Act
3. CNot guilty, because the substance was harmless
4. DNot guilty, because attempting the impossible is no offence under the 1981 Act

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

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

In R v Malcherek and Steel (1981), doctors switched off life-support machines after diagnosing brain death. The court held:

1. AThe doctors became the legal cause of death by deliberately switching off the machines
2. BThe defendants were guilty only of attempted murder
3. CThe victims died of natural causes in law
4. DSwitching off did not break the chain; the original assailants caused the deaths