Chapter 7 Multiple choice questions - Criminal Law, 16e Student Resources

. All the parties to crime are...

Accomplices

Principals

Aiders

Abettors

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

Aiding or abetting

Counselling

Obtaining

Procuring

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

Incites

Disfavours

Instigates

Encourages

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

Intention to assist or encourage the commission of the principal offence

Knowledge of the circumstances which constitute the offence

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

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

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

Without the proof of the mens rea

Without the proof of the actus reus

Only where the mens rea is proved

Only if the principal was convicted

. 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).

Taylor (2016)

G (2003)

Jogee (2016)

. 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)

Lewin v Bland (1985)

R v D (1984)

Whitchurch (1980)

. 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.

Judicial interpretation of statutory offences of a regulatory nature.

Officious prosecutors trying to hit conviction targets.

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

. A corporation is...

Not a legal person and therefore cannot be criminally liable

A legal person and therefore may not be criminally liable

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

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

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

The Criminal Justice Act 2003

The Human Rights Act 1998

The Corporate Homicide and Manslaughter Act 2008

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007