OCR A-level Law - Law Making Unit

Question 1

The term used when a court departs from a past decision because the facts of the new case are sufficiently different.

Accepted Answer

Distinguishing

Question 2

The House of Lords issued the Practice Statement in 1980?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

The main debate for a Bill occurs at the Second Reading.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

How many MPs usually form a Standing Committee for the Committee Stage of the passage of a Bill?

Accepted Answer

16-50

Question 5

Why was the cinema in the Wednesbury Corporation case viewed to be acting unreasonably?

Accepted Answer

Banned children on Sundays

Question 6

How is the Committee Stage different in the House of Lords?

Accepted Answer

The whole house sits as a committee

Question 7

What is an advantage of the legislative process?

Accepted Answer

All if these answers

Question 8

What does the UK Westminster Parliament consist of?

Accepted Answer

All of these elements

Question 9

Which case was about racial abuse at work and whether an employer was liable?

Accepted Answer

Jones v Tower Boot Co

Question 10

What is an advantage of delegated legislation?

Accepted Answer

Speed

Question 11

Which latin phrase means 'to stand by what has been decided'?

Accepted Answer

Stare decisis

Question 12

Which of these is an example of a Private Members' Bill?

Accepted Answer

Abortion Act 1967

Question 13

Which type of delegated legislation is used to increase the minimum wage each year?

Accepted Answer

Statutory Intrument

Question 14

Which of these is an example of a literal rule case?

Accepted Answer

Fisher v Bell

Question 15

Which type of Bill is used the most frequently in Parliament?

Accepted Answer

Public Bills

Question 16

What is sub-delegation?

Accepted Answer

Government minsters delegating the drafting of SIs to civil servants

Question 17

How many days is it before a statutory instrument becomes law if it is subject to a negative resolution?

Accepted Answer

40 days

Question 18

Who makes Orders in Council?

Accepted Answer

Monarch and Privy Council

Question 19

Most by-laws are made under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Which of these are internal aids?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 21

Bills can take months to become laws.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

An Order in Council was used in 2003 to downgrade cannabis to a Class C drug

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Which of these is an example of a golden rule case?

Accepted Answer

Adler v George

Question 24

Who make statutory instruments?

Accepted Answer

Government ministers

Question 25

In which case was the piece of delegated legislation seen to have been procedurally ultra vires?

Accepted Answer

Aylesbury Mushrooms case

Question 26

What is the name of the type of Act that passes power to bodies other than Parliament?

Accepted Answer

Parent/enabling Act

Question 27

White Papers are published before Green Papers.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

Decisions by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council are binding precedent in English courts.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

Which Act states that the masculine includes the feminine and singular includes plural?

Accepted Answer

Interpretation Act 1987

Question 30

In which case was a dictionary used as an external aid?

Accepted Answer

Vaughan v Vaughan

Question 31

Hansard can be used as an external aid.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Which case allows the Court of Appeal to depart from its previous decisions?

Accepted Answer

Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd

OCR A-level Law - Law Making Unit

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OCR A-level Law - Law Making Unit

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