Criminal Law 2009 Exam Paper

THIS PAPER IS NOT TO BE distant FROM THE EXAMINATION HALLS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 265 0010 ZA 269 0010 ZA 277 0101 ZA DIPLOMA IN LAW LLB EXAMINATION for remote Students INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION (Scheme A) FIRST AND SECOND YEAR EXAMINATIONS (Scheme B) GRADUATE door way LEVEL I (Route A) GRADUATE ENTRY FIRST YEAR (Route B) BSc DEGREES for orthogonal Students MANAGEMENT WITH LAW, LAW WITH MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTING WITH LAW AND LAW WITH ACCOUNTING FOR STUDENTS IN THE EXTERNAL PROGRAMME Criminal Law Wednesday 13 May 2009 10. 00 1. 15 pmCandidates will confound fifteen minutes during which they may read the typography and make clumsy notes ONLY in their answer books. They then have the remaining THREE HOURS in which to answer the questions. Candidates should answer FOUR of the adjacent EIGHT questions. Candidates should answer only parts of a question unless otherwise stated. University of London 2009 UL09/806 rapscallion 1 of 4 1. Under what circumstances may a person be crimina lly liable for a nonstarter to act? 2. (a) Could the reasoning in the cases of Roberts (1971) and Williams and Davis (1992) be said to conflict with that in the case of Blaue (1975)? b) Anna stabbed Iqbal. Iqbal was seriously injured. He was taken to hospital and placed on a animation-support machine. One night, an intensivecare nurse, Norah, who hated money being penniless on expensive lifesupport machinery and without being authorised to do so, switched off the life support machine. Iqbal died. Consider Annas and Norahs practicable criminal liability for murder. 3. Fred and Marcus had fought because Marcus was maddened with Fred for having carved the letter F on to Livias arm employ 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 not serious, although it did require one stitch. Fred and Marcus decided to settle their differences by having a fight. Fred punched Marcus, knocking him over and causation him to fracture his skull. Fred ran international when the constabulary were called. As Fred was making his way home, a beggar, Beryl, who was carrying a baby in her arms, approached him and asked him for money to feed the baby. This incensed Fred who hated beggars. He sprayed after-shave cologne water in Beryls face causing her to drop the baby which bruised it slightly.The police force then caught up with Fred. PC news report tried 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 through with(predicate) a shop window, sustaining concentrated cuts to his arm. Discuss the possible criminal liability of Fred. UL09/806 Page 2 of 4 4. Egor, who had a history of depression and schizophrenia, and his wife Irina were eating in a restaurant. Egor was taking medication for his condition and was therefore not drinking alcoho l.He was hard to reassure Irina who had received threatening letters from her ex-husband Alexey. All of a sudden, Alexey, who was rattling drunk, burst into the restaurant and stormed over to Egor and Irinas table cheering You stole my wife You must die Egor was alarmed. He picked up the heavy water jug from the table and threw it at Alexey. It hit Alexey on the top and he fell to the floor, unconscious. The sight of Alexey lying on the floor angry Egor as he remembered the letters Alexey had sent to Irina.He was also worried that Alexey skill wake up and kill him. He repeatedly kicked Alexey who died of a fractured skull in front an ambulance could be called. Discuss Egors criminal liability. 5. Self-induced intoxication is never legitimate 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 raiment to go with the gown she had bought for her firms centenary ball. She later overheard psyche in her office saying that they had lost ? 0 but she did not return the money. While chatting to her colleagues, she discovered that her firm had set up a fund to contribute ? 100 towards the cost of a ballgown for each egg-producing(prenominal) 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 apply for the money stating that she was in financial difficulties.She scene it was probably alright as she knew that none of her colleagues was in financial difficulties either. She did not get the money as, by the time her application was received, she was told the fund 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 sisters student labor union card which she showed to the receptionist and obtained the discount. When she arrived at her star sign, Jenny noticed that her next door neighbours were having a delivery of shopping.She had forgotten 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 their letter box. Consider Jennys possible criminal liability. UL09/806 Page 3 of 4 7. Antoine enjoyed dressing up as a muliebrity and so every Sunday he wore his sisters clothes and called himself Antoinette. One Sunday, at his local pub, a visitor to the area, Geezer, starting chatting to him. Very quickly Antoine bring in that Geezer thought he really was a woman and was sexually fire in him.Antoine did not tell Geezer the truth as Geezer was rather rough and Antoine was a little nervous of him. What Antoine did not know, however, was that Geezer was even more provoke in Antoines Cartier watch which he thought would make a handsome gift for his wife. He told Geezer that he was waiver to powder his nose and took himself off to the mens room lavatory to think about how he was going to get away from Geezer. Geezer, however, came into the lavatory and was shocked to see Antoinette there. As he came to realise 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 while he removed his watch. He put it in his pocket and ran off. Antoine, who was, by now, very distressed, put his clothes back on and left the pub. He thought a cup of tea might make him feel better(p) and so went into a cafe where he ordered tea and toast. When he offered to endure, 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 disor der 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 both aged 16 hated their next door neighbour, Hans. He swore at them if they made 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 veneration while Priya kept watch outside.The following night, while Priya kept watch, Dipak entered Hans house dressed as a skeleton, using a spare tell he had found under a flowerpot. He put the find out back once he had opened the front door. On his way to Hans bedroom he spotted a ? 20 note on the table and decided to take it. He then went into Hans bedroom, gently climbed on to the end of the bed and started vigorously jumping up and down shouting Were coming to get you Hans woke up and wa s so terrified he had a heart attack and died instantly. Consider the possible criminal liability of Dipak and Priya. terminal OF PAPER UL09/806 Page 4 of 4