Criminal law worksheet with answers

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

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

In English law, rape is defined in which statute?

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

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

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

D gets drunk voluntarily, mistakenly believes he is being attacked and stabs V. Under English law, D:

1. AIs automatically guilty of murder
2. BCannot rely on a drunken mistaken belief in self-defence
3. CCan always rely on any honest belief, however it arose, in self-defence
4. DHas a complete defence of intoxication

D drinks heavily to gain courage before killing V, as planned. Following A-G for Northern Ireland v Gallagher, D:

1. ACan rely on intoxication because murder is a specific intent offence
2. BCannot rely on intoxication, because the intent to kill was formed before drinking
3. CCan only be guilty of manslaughter
4. DHas a defence of involuntary intoxication

A, a lifeguard paid to watch a pool, reads a magazine while a child drowns. A could be liable for an omission because of:

1. AHaving created the dangerous situation
2. BBeing the only person who saw the child
3. CA contractual duty to act
4. DA special relationship with the child's parents

Which principle comes from DPP v Majewski (1977)?

1. AIntoxication can never be considered by a jury
2. BVoluntary intoxication is no defence to crimes of basic intent
3. CInvoluntary intoxication is always a complete defence
4. DDrunkenness reduces murder to manslaughter in every case

In Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993), the House of Lords held that withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from a patient in a persistent vegetative state:

1. AWas a positive act of killing, amounting to murder
2. BWas lawful only because the patient's family had given consent, which is required for any such withdrawal
3. CWas lawful because the patient had made an advance decision
4. DWas an omission that was lawful because continued treatment was no longer in the patient's best interests