Nature of Law and Legal System overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Law quiz

A legal rule is made and enforced by the state with a defined sanction

A legal rule is always identical to the moral view of the majority

A legal rule can never change once Parliament has first enacted it

A legal rule is enforced only by social disapproval and conscience

Society may always use the law to enforce a shared morality in full

The law should restrict freedom only to prevent harm to others

Morality and law are completely identical and cannot ever diverge

Judges alone should decide which moral rules become law each year

Royal Assent, committee stage, first reading, then the second reading

Committee stage, third reading, report stage, then the first reading

First reading, second reading, committee stage, report, third reading

Second reading, Royal Assent, first reading, then the committee stage

The courts may strike down any Act they consider to be unjust

The monarch may veto and permanently block any Act of Parliament

Devolved legislatures rank above the Westminster Parliament in law

No Parliament can bind its successors as to future law-making

Government ministers within their area of responsibility

Local authorities acting only for their own local area

The Privy Council together with the reigning monarch

Individual judges sitting in the higher appeal courts

It has been approved by both Houses under the affirmative procedure

It goes beyond the powers granted by the parent Act and is void

It has been published correctly as a numbered statutory instrument

It will automatically become law unless Parliament annuls it

Smith v Hughes, where soliciting from a balcony fell within the Act

Re Sigsworth, where a murderer was prevented from inheriting

Whiteley v Chappell, where impersonating a dead voter was not caught

Pepper v Hart, which allowed limited use of Hansard in court

Hansard may be used where words are ambiguous and a minister was clear

Dictionaries can never be consulted by a judge interpreting a statute

Headings and Schedules are extrinsic aids found outside the Act

The mischief rule was abolished and replaced by the literal rule

A remark made by the way that is only persuasive on later courts

The dissenting judge's reasons for disagreeing with the majority

A hypothetical example given by the judge to illustrate a point

The legal reason for the decision, which is the binding part

The Supreme Court to depart from its own previous decisions

The Court of Appeal to ignore all decisions of the Supreme Court

Magistrates' courts to create binding precedent for the future

Any court to overturn an Act of Parliament it dislikes

The multi-track, which is actively case-managed by a judge

The small claims track, which is informal and limits costs

The fast track, which has a strict timetable and one-day trial

The Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice

Negotiation between the parties or their respective lawyers

Mediation conducted by a neutral facilitating third party

Conciliation with an active conciliator who suggests solutions

Arbitration, where the arbitrator's award binds under the 1996 Act

By a judge and jury in the Crown Court after being sent there

Only in the Magistrates' Court by a bench of lay magistrates

By a single District Judge sitting without any jury at all

Directly in the Court of Appeal without any first trial

Annual approval of each judge's salary by a vote in Parliament

Allowing the government to dismiss judges who rule against it

Security of tenure and salaries paid from the Consolidated Fund

Requiring judges to follow ministers' instructions on the law

It greatly expanded civil legal aid into many new areas of law

It removed many civil areas from the scope of legal aid

It abolished conditional fee agreements in personal injury claims

It created a single legal jurisdiction for Wales and Scotland