OCR GCSE Citizenship Studies Rights, the law and the legal system overview quiz quiz

The right to be told the truth by a friend

The right to a refund on faulty goods

The right to free parking

The right to life

Because they can be limited to protect other people or society

Because the government is free to ignore them completely whenever it chooses to

Because they only ever apply to adults and never to children or young people

Because they are not written down anywhere in any law or official document

The Equality Act 2010

The Human Rights Act 1998

Magna Carta

The Data Protection Act 2018

Strike the Act down immediately so that it stops having any legal effect at all

Order the arrest of the government ministers who introduced the offending Act

Issue a declaration of incompatibility, putting pressure on Parliament to change it

Rewrite the wording of the Act itself and then pass the brand new version straight into law

The victim of the crime, acting privately on their own behalf

The claimant, who brings the case to recover money owed to them

A tribunal made up of specialist members rather than an ordinary court

The state, through the Crown Prosecution Service

The balance of probabilities

Beyond all reasonable doubt, the higher criminal standard

Absolute certainty, with no possible room for any doubt at all

A two-thirds majority of the members of the jury hearing the case

Public opinion polls carried out among ordinary members of the public

Precedent (decisions of higher courts followed in similar cases)

Newspaper editorials that comment on what the law ought to say

Social media posts shared widely by members of the general public

The police are free to make up any rule they like and enforce it as they wish

Only judges and lawyers actually have to obey the law that applies to the country

Everyone, including the government, is subject to the law and no one is above it

Laws can be kept secret from the public so that only officials know what they say

The judge alone, deciding both the facts and the law in the case

The Crown Prosecution Service, which brought the case to court

The police, who investigated and arrested the defendant

A jury of twelve members of the public

Rehabilitation, so the offender does not reoffend

Making as much money as possible for the courts and the legal system

Entertaining the general public by holding dramatic trials in open court

Removing the offender's right to a fair trial as part of their punishment

There is no real difference between the two of them at all, and both of the words simply mean exactly the same legal process

In mediation the parties reach their own agreement; in arbitration an arbitrator makes a binding decision

Mediation is only ever used in criminal cases and never in any kind of civil dispute

Arbitration is always completely free of charge for both of the sides involved in it

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