Legal skills: scenario analysis and legal argument: Practice Questions

• a.The courts generally cannot strike down or overrule an Act of Parliament.
• b.The Monarch has the absolute power to veto any Act passed by the Commons.
• c.Acts of Parliament must be approved by the European Court of Human Rights to become law.
• d.The Supreme Court can repeal an Act if it is morally wrong.

• a.To follow the specific instructions laid out by the Law Commission in their reform reports.
• b.To modify the literal meaning of words to avoid a result that is obnoxious to public policy.
• c.To give words their plain, ordinary, and literal meaning even if it leads to absurdity.
• d.To identify the gap or defect in the previous law that the statute was intended to rectify.

• a.It established that the Court of Appeal is always bound by its own previous decisions in criminal matters.
• b.It mandated that all lower courts must follow the obiter dicta of the Supreme Court.
• c.It allowed the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court) to depart from its own previous decisions when it appears right to do so.
• d.It created the requirement for judges to provide a ratio decidendi in every written judgment.

• a.Fault
• b.Precedent
• c.Liability
• d.Sanction

• a.Small claims, fast track, and multi-track.
• b.First instance, appellate, and leapfrog.
• c.Mediation, arbitration, and negotiation.
• d.Summary, triable-either-way, and indictable.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.