Rights and responsibilities - AQA GCSE Citizenship Studies quiz

Statute law and common law

Civil law and criminal law

Royal decree and custom

European law and local law

The balance of probabilities

Beyond reasonable doubt

A simple majority

On the word of the victim

The victim of the crime, acting all on their own in person

A trade union on behalf of its members

The state, through the Crown Prosecution Service

The defendant who is accused of the crime

Beyond reasonable doubt

Whichever party has more witnesses

The judge's personal opinion

The balance of probabilities

Twelve

Six

Ten

Fifteen

Increasing crime rates across the whole of society

Protecting the public and reforming the offender

Punishing the victim of the original crime

Replacing the role of the courts entirely

To pay the fines that are handed out to convicted offenders by the criminal courts

To fund the police and the running of the criminal courts

To help people who cannot afford a lawyer get legal advice or representation

To pay each member of a jury a daily salary

1928

1948

1968

1998

The Equality Act of the year 2010

The Bill of Rights passed in 1689

The Magna Carta of 1215

The Human Rights Act 1998

Of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described

The cheapest version of the product available anywhere on the market

Made entirely within the United Kingdom by law

Sold with a written warranty lasting ten full years

To set the national minimum wage for the whole country

To prosecute criminals in the courts on behalf of the state

To represent workers and negotiate pay and conditions

To run the courts and the legal system

Because rights can simply be bought and sold like any other goods

Because only adults over the age of eighteen years old actually have any rights at all

Because responsibilities always cancel out and remove your rights

Because enjoying your rights depends on others meeting their responsibilities