LAW03 - Murder

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Test sobre LAW03 - Murder, creado por lucy.warnes el 11/12/2014.
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Resumen del Recurso

Pregunta 1

Pregunta
Is murder a common law offence?
Respuesta
  • Yes
  • No

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
Who defined murder?
Respuesta
  • Lord Coke
  • Attorney-General

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
What are the different elements to the AR of murder?
Respuesta
  • Unlawful killing
  • Reasonable person in being
  • Under the Queen's peace
  • Malice aforethought expressed or implied

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
What is the element of the MR of murder?
Respuesta
  • Malice aforethought expressed or implied
  • Under the Queen's peace
  • Reasonable person in being
  • Unlawful killing

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
What is an omission?
Respuesta
  • A positive act
  • A failure to act

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
What cases can you use for omissions?
Respuesta
  • Gibbins and Proctor (1918)
  • Pittwood (1902)
  • Miller (1983)
  • Chan Fook (1994)
  • Quick (1973)

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
A foetus in the womb consider 'in being'? (Attorney-General's Reference (No.3 of 1994) 1997)
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
Doctors are not permitted to switch off life support machines of 'brain dead' patients without being liable for murder? (Malcherek and Steel 1981)
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
The AR of murder can be present when a prisoner of war is killed but not when an enemy of war is killed?
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
When must the Attorney-General give his consent for a prosecution of murder?
Respuesta
  • If death occurs more than three years after the injury occurred
  • Where a person has already been found guilty of an offence that was connected to the circumstances of the death
  • Where a British citizen has been arrested for alleged murder outside of the UK

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
What is causation?
Respuesta
  • The direct and unbroken link between the D's act and its criminal consequence
  • Where the AR of an offence has passed from the intended V to the actual V

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
What are the different types of causation?
Respuesta
  • Factual
  • Legal
  • Lawful
  • Unlawful

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
Factual causation - In White (1910) the D poisoned his mothers drink with the intention of killing her but the chain of causation was broken because her actual cause of death was a myocardial infarction.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
Factual causation - In Pagett (1983) a police bullet killed the V who was being held as a human shield by the D. Who was responsible for the V's death?
Respuesta
  • Police
  • Defendant

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
What case can be used for legal causation?
Respuesta
  • Cato (1976)
  • Kemp (1957)
  • Sullivan (1984)

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
Does the case Blaue (1975) illustrate the principle of take your victim as you find him?
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
Which of the following cases had a break in the chain of causation?
Respuesta
  • Jordan (1956)
  • Smith (1959)
  • Cheshire (1991)
  • Malcherek and Steel (1981)
  • Roberts (1971)
  • Williams (1957)

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
Malice has to be present?
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
Aforethought does not need any previous planning or thinking about it before hand?
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
The MR of an intention to kill includes
Respuesta
  • Intention to kill
  • Intention to cause GBH
  • Intention to cause ABH
  • Intention to do assault or battery

Pregunta 21

Pregunta
Moloney (1985), Hancock and Shankland (1986), Nedrick (1986) and Woolling (1998) are all case examples of what?
Respuesta
  • Foresight of consequences
  • Loss of control
  • Diminished responsibility
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