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Quiz Burden of Proof

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Diamondsareforever
7 played - 9 yrs ago

A quiz on the UK law regarding the burden of proof

 

Expert QUIZ 30 QUESTIONS
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Question 1 / 30

What is incidence?

 
Question 2 / 30

Example of complicated civil law burden

 
Question 3 / 30

Which of these is not a principle behind the burden of proof?

 
Question 4 / 30

What is the seminal case on burden of proof?

 
Question 5 / 30

What was held after Woolmington?

 
Question 6 / 30

What is the evidential burden?

 
Question 7 / 30

What type of burden is there for defences after Woolmington?

 
Question 8 / 30

Which of these is not an exception to the Woolmington principle?

 
Question 9 / 30

What protects the presumption of innocence?

 
Question 10 / 30

Which case produced the rules on insanity?

 
Question 11 / 30

Which of these acts does not contain an express statutory exception?

 
Question 12 / 30

What percentage of Crown Court statutes departed from Woolmington according to research by Ashworth & Blake in 1996?

 
Question 13 / 30

Which section of the Magistrates' Court Act 1980 contains an statutory exception?

 
Question 14 / 30

What is an example of a pre-Woolmington imposing of a burden on defence by implication?

 
Question 15 / 30

In which case did the Court of Appeal hold that there was a general principle the same as the one in the Magistrates' court operating in the Crown Court?

 
Question 16 / 30

In which case did the House of Lords affirm this?

 
Question 17 / 30

What percentage does morphine have to be above to be illegal?

 
Question 18 / 30

What type of statutes may make it easier to place a burden on the defendant?

 
Question 19 / 30

Which case held that the state must confine any reverse onuses within reasonable limits and take account of the importance of what is at stake?

 
Question 20 / 30

Which case held that once the Human Rights Act was in force the courts may have to construe legal burdens as evidential?

 
Question 21 / 30

From what year did the House of Lords start to give more weight to the presumption of innocence and less to Parliaments' intention?

 
Question 22 / 30

Which case held that there was an evidential burden only to show that the defendant didn't know the contents of what he was carrying (s 28 possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply)?

 
Question 23 / 30

In which case was it held that although there was a breach of Art 6 given the aim of preventing death it did not go beyond reasonable limits?

 
Question 24 / 30

Which Act was in issue in Attorney General's Reference No 2 of 2002?

 
Question 25 / 30

What was the decision ration in Attorney General's Reference No 2 of 2002?

 
Question 26 / 30

What section of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 contains the defence of provocation?

 
Question 27 / 30

Example of the tactical burden?

 
Question 28 / 30

Which of these is not a common law defence on which the burden shifts?

 
Question 29 / 30

In which case did the Court of Appeal hold that it wasn't disproportionate to make the defendant responsible?

 
Question 30 / 30

What did the case of Hunt clearly fall within?

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