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6. Menaces includes violence, threats of any action detrimental to or unpleasant to the person addressed or warnings of such action, which case is this from

  • Thorne v Motor Trade Association
  • Collister and Warhurst
  • Harvey

7. The case relating to the unwarranted demand test is Harvey

  • True
  • False

8. This case involved a letter to shopkeepers on a rag week procession route that asked for contributions to avoid inconveniance

  • Harry
  • Harvey

9. The defendant must hold a belief that is generally viewed as moral, if it is generally viewed as immoral then there is no defence, under the unwarranted demand test (S21(1))

  • True
  • False

10. In Harvey the defendant held the belief that the use of menaces was the 'proper means of reinforcing the demand', however despite this, his belief was not generally considered moral therefore he was convicted

  • True
  • False

11. Gain and loss are in money or other property - things of economic value rather than a kiss for example, which section is this under

  • S34 (2) Theft Act 1968
  • S4(2) Theft Act 1969
  • S34 (2) Fraud Act 1968

12. If the person to whom the threat is made is known by the defendant to be particularly timid, then threats which do not affect the normal person can still be taken as menaces

  • Herbert
  • Garwood
  • Shah
  • Bevans

13. In the case of Collister and Warhurst, D overheard policeofficers discussing dropping charges in return for payment, what type of demand is this?

  • Implied
  • Express

14. In the case of Bevans, the morphine injection was not classed as something of economic value

  • False
  • True

15. The case illustrating an implied demand is

  • Harry
  • Collister and Warhurst
  • Harvey

16. In the case of ___ the defendant forced a doctor at gunpoint to provide him with an injection of morphine for pain relief.

  • Quick
  • Bevans
  • Treacy
  • Harvey

17. A demand is made when the defendant has done all he or she can to ____

  • Communicate the demand
  • Kill the victim

18. In Harry the threats were so mild as to not amount to menaces

  • True
  • False

19. Part a) of the two tests set out in s21(1) is

  • D believed that he or she had reasonable grounds for making the demand
  • D believed the use of menaces was a proper means of reinforcing the demand

20. Blackmail is under which section of which Act?

  • S21 Theft Act 1968
  • S2 Theft Act 1968
  • S21 Fraud Act 2006