Criminal Law 2009 Exam Paper

THIS PAPER IS non TO BE REMOVED FROM THE query HALLS UNIVERSITY OF capital of the United Kingdom 265 0010 ZA 269 0010 ZA 277 0101 ZA DIPLOMA IN faithfulness LLB EXAMINATION for External Students INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION (Scheme A) commencement exercise AND SECOND YEAR EXAMINATIONS (Scheme B) GRADUATE opening LEVEL I (R let ane A) GRADUATE debateing FIRST YEAR (Route B) BSc DEGREES for External Students commission WITH LAW, LAW WITH MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTING WITH LAW AND LAW WITH ACCOUNTING FOR STUDENTS IN THE EXTERNAL course of instruction Criminal Law Wednesday 13 whitethorn 2009 10. 00 1. 15 pmCandidates will have fifteen minutes during which they may read the make-up and make rough nones ONLY in their breed along books. They and so have the be THREE HOURS in which to pr playise the read/write intellects. Candidates should answer FOUR of the following EIGHT questions. Candidates should answer alone parts of a question unless otherwise stated. University of Lon don 2009 UL09/806 paginate 1 of 4 1. Under what circumstances may a person be reprehensively liable for a failure to act? 2. (a) Could the reasoning in the cases of Roberts (1971) and Williams and Davis (1992) be give tongue to to conflict with that in the case of Blaue (1975)? b) Anna stabbed Iqbal. Iqbal was naughtily injured. He was taken to hospital and position on a life- dungeon machine. mavin night, an intensivecare nurse, Norah, who hated m unrivaledy being penurious on expensive lifesupport machinery and without being empower to do so, switched off the life support machine. Iqbal died. Consider Annas and Norahs possible sad liability for murder. 3. Fred and Marcus had fought because Marcus was infuriated with Fred for having carved the letter F on to Livias branch using a penknife. Livia is Marcuss 14year-old daughter, who begged Fred to do this as she was in love with him.Fred had reluctantly agreed. The wound was non serious, although it did require one stitch. Fred and Marcus stubborn to settle their differences by having a fight. Fred punched Marcus, knocking him over and make him to breakout his skull. Fred ran away when the police were called. As Fred was do his way home, a beggar, Beryl, who was carrying a scotch in her arms, approached him and asked him for notes to feed the baby. This shady Fred who hated beggars. He sprayed after-shave eau de cologne in Beryls face causing her to drop the baby which bruised it slightly.The police and then caught up with Fred. PC load seek to arrest him. Fred pushed PC Bill out of the way in an attempt to get away, causing PC Bill to stagger. In an effort to save himself from falling, PC Bill put his arm out and pushed it finished a shop window, sustaining severe cuts to his arm. debate the possible unlawful liability of Fred. UL09/806 paginate 2 of 4 4. Egor, who had a invoice of depression and schizophrenia, and his wife Irina were eating in a restaurant. Egor was taking medicatio n for his occasion and was therefore not drinking alcohol.He was nerve-racking to reassure Irina who had received threatening letter from her ex-husband Alexey. All of a sudden, Alexey, who was genuinely drunk, burst into the restaurant and stormed over to Egor and Irinas sidestep yelling You stole my wife You must die Egor was alarmed. He picked up the heavy water jug from the circumvent and threw it at Alexey. It hit Alexey on the head and he fell to the floor, unconscious. The sight of Alexey prevarication on the floor enraged Egor as he remembered the letters Alexey had sent to Irina.He was likewise worried that Alexey might wake up and kill him. He repeatedly kicked Alexey who died of a fractured skull before an ambulance could be called. Discuss Egors sad liability. 5. Self-induced intoxication is never certain by the courts as an excuse for committing an offence. Discuss. 6. On her way out from her workplace, Jenny found ? 50 which she used to buy a pair of shoes to go with the raiment she had bought for her potents centenary ball. She subsequent overheard someone in her office facial expression that they had lost ? 0 but she did not return the silver. While chatting to her colleagues, she discovered that her firm had set up a gillyflower to contribute ? 100 towards the cost of a ballgown for each female worker who could demonstrate financial hardship. Although, initially, she did not apply for this, as she had already bought her gown and was not in financial difficulties, after hearing that all of her female colleagues intended to do so, whether or not they had already purchased their gowns, she applied for the money stating that she was in financial difficulties.She thought it was in all probability alright as she knew that none of her colleagues was in financial difficulties either. She did not get the money as, by the prison term her application was received, she was told the strain had been spent. On the day of the ball, Jenny went to the hairdressers which was fling a 20% discount to students. She had borrowed her childs student union neb which she showed to the receptionist and obtained the discount. When she arrived at her theater, Jenny noticed that her attached door neighbours were having a delivery of shopping.She had bury to buy anything for her lunch and was hungry and so, hoping they would not mind, took a microwave meal from one of the shopping bags, putting ? 5 through with(predicate) their letter box. Consider Jennys possible criminal liability. UL09/806 Page 3 of 4 7. Antoine enjoyed dressing up as a woman and so either Sunday he wore his sisters change state and called himself Antoinette. unmatched Sunday, at his local pub, a visitant to the area, Geezer, starting chatting to him. Very quickly Antoine earn that Geezer thought he really was a woman and was sexually interested in him.Antoine did not tell Geezer the truth as Geezer was rather rough and Antoine was a modest nervous of him. What Antoine did not know, however, was that Geezer was even more than interested in Antoines Cartier watch which he thought would make a square-toed gift for his wife. He told Geezer that he was qualifying to powder his nose and took himself off to the mens basinful to think about how he was tone ending to get away from Geezer. Geezer, however, came into the lavatory and was ball over to see Antoinette there. As he came to at a lower placestand what was going on, he became extremely angry at having been fooled.He ripped off Antoines clothes and forcibly penetrated him with a bar of soap. He then held Antoine down period he take his watch. He put it in his sacking and ran off. Antoine, who was, by now, very distressed, put his clothes back on and left(a) the pub. He thought a cup of tea leaf might make him feel develop and so went into a cafe where he ordered tea and toast. When he offered to pay, he was told that a bill would be brought to his table and that he should pay the cashier at the door as he left the cafe. When he had finished, he left the cafe without having paid.He was subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and claims that he did not know what he was doing when he left the cafe. Consider the possible criminal liability of Antoine and Geezer. 8. Priya and her twin brother Dipak twain aged 16 hated their future(a) door neighbour, Hans. He swore at them if they do a noise and they were convinced that he spied on them and reported everything they did to their parents who were abroad. They decided that it was time to teach Hans a lesson and that Dipak would break into Hans house and give Hans a fright time Priya kept watch outside.The following night, while Priya kept watch, Dipak entered Hans house dressed as a skeleton, using a write chance on he had found under a flowerpot. He put the key back once he had undecided the front door. On his way to Hans sleeping room he spotted a ? 20 note on the table a nd decided to take it. He then went into Hans bedroom, gently climbed on to the end of the bed and started smartly jumping up and down shouting Were coming to get you Hans woke up and was so terrified he had a summation attack and died instantly. Consider the possible criminal liability of Dipak and Priya. END OF PAPER UL09/806 Page 4 of 4