BPP Study Manual Chapter 1

Question 1

Date of Magna Carta

Answer 1

1215

Question 2

What were the four main courts following the Norman Conquest?

Answer 2

Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of King’s Bench
Assize Courts

Question 3

What ensured equity law stands above common law?

Answer 3

Earl of Oxford’s Case 1615

Question 4

What acts combined equity and common law in the same courts?

Answer 4

Judicature Acts 1873-1875

Question 5

What created the county courts?

Answer 5

County Courts Act 1846

Question 6

What created the crown courts and abolished the assize system?

Answer 6

Courts Act 1971

Question 7

What gave common law courts the power to grant equitable remedies?

Answer 7

Common Law Procedure Act 1854

Question 8

What gave Court of Chancery power to grant damages?

Answer 8

Chancery Amendment Act 1858

Question 9

What two cases entrenched Parliamentary supremacy over court etc law?

Answer 9

Burmah Oil Ltd v Lord Advocate 1964

British Railways Board v Pickin 1974

Question 10

When did the UK agree to join the European Community?

Answer 10

When it signed the European Communities Act 1972

Question 11

When did the UK actually join the EC?

Answer 11

1st January 1973

Question 12

When did the Human Rights Act come into force?

Answer 12

2 October 2000

Question 13

When was the Human Rights Act agreed?

Answer 13

1998