AQA A-Level Law 3.1 The nature of law and the English legal system overview quiz quiz

On the balance of probabilities

On a prima facie basis

Beyond reasonable doubt

To a substantial likelihood

The senior courts can strike down any Act of Parliament that they consider to be unfair or unjust

The Supreme Court is the single highest source of law in the United Kingdom and outranks Parliament

The devolved assemblies share fully equal and entrenched law-making power with the Westminster Parliament on all matters

Parliament can make or unmake any law, no Parliament can bind its successors, and no body can override an Act

Statutory instruments

By-laws

Orders in Council

Private members' bills

The mischief rule

The literal rule

The golden rule

The purposive approach

A comment made by the judge 'by the way' that is only ever persuasive in later cases

The summary of the material facts of the case as found by the court

The legal principle on which the decision is based, which is binding

The dissenting judgment given by a judge in the minority of the panel

The Young v Bristol Aeroplane exceptions

The per incuriam rule

Distinguishing on the facts

The Practice Statement 1966

The Crown Court

The Magistrates' Court only

Either the Magistrates' Court or the Crown Court at the defendant's choice

The County Court

Negotiation

Arbitration

Mediation

Conciliation

The Lord Chancellor acting entirely alone

The Prime Minister and the Cabinet together

The Judicial Appointments Commission

The Bar Standards Board for the profession

It abolished all legal aid completely throughout England and Wales for every kind of case

It introduced fully free legal representation for all criminal defendants without any test

It transferred the entire legal aid funding budget to local authorities to administer at a local level

It removed most civil matters from the scope of legal aid and tightened the means and merits tests