Chapter 7 Multiple choice questions

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. All the parties to crime are...

Accomplices correct incorrect

Principals correct incorrect

Aiders correct incorrect

Abettors correct incorrect

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. If an accused is charged as an accessory, he would not be charged with which of the following?

Aiding or abetting correct incorrect

Counselling correct incorrect

Obtaining correct incorrect

Procuring correct incorrect

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. 'Abetting' does not suggest the activity of one who_____the principal to commit the offence?

Incites correct incorrect

Disfavours correct incorrect

Instigates correct incorrect

Encourages correct incorrect

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. What is the mens rea required of an accessory to be convicted?

Intention to assist or encourage the commission of the principal offence correct incorrect

Knowledge of the circumstances which constitute the offence correct incorrect

Intention to assist or encourage the commission of the principal offence and knowledge of the circumstances which constitute the offence correct incorrect

Oblique intention to assist or encourage the commission of the principal offence correct incorrect

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. Where the principal offence is one of strict liability, an accessory may be convicted...

Without the proof of the mens rea correct incorrect

Without the proof of the actus reus correct incorrect

Only where the mens rea is proved correct incorrect

Only if the principal was convicted correct incorrect

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. In which case did the Supreme Court review the law on accessorial liability and conclude that the Privy Council and House of Lords had taken a wrong turning in Chan Wing-Siu and Powell and English?

Gnango (2011). correct incorrect

Taylor (2016) correct incorrect

G (2003) correct incorrect

Jogee (2016) correct incorrect

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. In which of the following cases did Lord Salmon suggest that police officers and informers involved in improper instances of entrapment should be prosecuted?

Sang (1979) correct incorrect

Lewin v Bland (1985) correct incorrect

R v D (1984) correct incorrect

Whitchurch (1980) correct incorrect

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. The imposition of vicarious liability on an employer for the actions of his employee which amount to a crime is usually the result of …?

The legislature accidentally drafting legislation too broadly. correct incorrect

Judicial interpretation of statutory offences of a regulatory nature. correct incorrect

Officious prosecutors trying to hit conviction targets. correct incorrect

Long-forgotten common law offences being resurrected to cover new situations. correct incorrect

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. A corporation is...

Not a legal person and therefore cannot be criminally liable correct incorrect

A legal person and therefore may not be criminally liable correct incorrect

A legal person and therefore may be criminally liable even though it has no physical existence and cannot act or think except through its directors or servants correct incorrect

A legal person and therefore may be criminally liable, however it has no physical existence and cannot act or think, even through its directors or servants correct incorrect

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. Which of the following Acts changed the law on corporate manslaughter and homicide?

The Criminal Justice Act 2003 correct incorrect

The Human Rights Act 1998 correct incorrect

The Corporate Homicide and Manslaughter Act 2008 correct incorrect

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 correct incorrect