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LLB practice questions: single best answer questions for core law modules

90 single best answer questions across the core LLB modules, from Contract and Tort to Jurisprudence, each with an explanation for every option. Try five free questions first.

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What the exam involves

Modules coveredLegal System and Method, Contract, Tort, Criminal Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Land Law, Equity and Trusts, EU Law, Human Rights and Jurisprudence
LLB examsSet by each university: problem questions and essays, and increasingly single best answer questions aligned to SQE1
Our bank90 questions: set A has 50 across all modules, set B a further 40
LevelUndergraduate module-exam level, testing leading cases and the reasons behind the rules as well as applying them

Sources: BSB: foundations of legal knowledge · SRA: SQE1 single best answer questions. Check the official website for current rules and dates.

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Sample question · Constitutional and Administrative Law

In 2024 Parliament passed the Marches Waterways Act 2024, a private Act promoted by Marches Waterways Ltd. Section 12 extinguishes all private rights over a disused canal bed near Leominster, Herefordshire, so that the company can build a cycleway along it. Owen Price owns the adjoining farmland. Under a 19th-century conveyance, he would have become entitled to the canal bed once the canal was abandoned. Section 12 defeats that entitlement, which he values at £85,000.

Owen says that the company's petition told Parliament that every affected landowner had been notified of the Bill and that none objected, when in fact he was never notified. He issues a claim in the High Court for a declaration that section 12 is ineffective against him because the Act was obtained by misleading Parliament. The company applies to strike out the claim.

Which of the following best describes how the court should deal with the strike-out application?

  1. A Refuse to strike out the claim, because the rule that courts will not look behind an Act applies only to public general Acts and not to private Acts.
  2. B Refuse to strike out the claim, because fraud unravels everything, and if the company deceived Parliament the court may declare section 12 ineffective against Owen.
  3. C Strike out the claim, because the court cannot look behind an Act on the Parliament roll to examine how it was passed or whether Parliament was misled.
  4. D Refuse to strike out the claim, because the court may declare section 12 ineffective if Parliament's standing orders on notifying affected landowners were breached.
  5. E Refuse to strike out the claim, because the court may declare that Parliament was misled, even though it cannot hold that section 12 is ineffective.
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C is correct. Under the enrolled bill rule, once an Act appears on the Parliament roll as having passed both Houses and received Royal Assent, the courts will not inquire into how it came to be passed: what happened before it was introduced, how it progressed through Parliament, or whether Parliament was misled along the way. In Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway Co v Wauchope (1842) 8 Cl & F 710 the House of Lords refused to examine whether the procedure for passing a private railway Act had been followed, holding that a court can look only at the parliamentary roll. In Pickin v British Railways Board [1974] AC 765 the House of Lords applied the same rule to a claim, very like Owen's, that a private Act had been obtained by misleading Parliament, and held that the allegation could not be investigated. The rule is one strand of Diceyan parliamentary sovereignty: the courts' job is to interpret and apply Acts of Parliament, not to review the process that produced them, and the rule also reflects the respect the courts owe to Parliament's control of its own proceedings. Owen's claim should therefore be struck out. His only route is through Parliament itself, for example by seeking amending legislation.

A is wrong: both Wauchope and Pickin concerned private Acts, and the courts refused to look behind them; the rule applies to every Act on the roll, public or private. B is wrong: the maxim that fraud unravels everything applies to judgments, contracts and similar transactions, but it does not allow a court to investigate whether Parliament was deceived or to set aside an Act on that ground. D is wrong: standing orders are rules of internal parliamentary procedure, and Wauchope shows that a failure to comply with them does not affect the validity of an Act. E is wrong: the court will not investigate the allegation at all, so it cannot grant even a declaration that Parliament was misled, since that would mean examining the very parliamentary process that the rule protects from scrutiny.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Are LLB exams multiple choice?

Some are. Most LLB modules are still assessed by problem questions and essays, but many universities now add single best answer tests, often to prepare students for SQE1.

Which LLB modules do your questions cover?

The seven foundation subjects plus English Legal System and Legal Method, Human Rights and Jurisprudence.

Do the questions explain the answers?

Yes. Each explanation states the rule and the leading authority, applies it to the facts and says why each other option is wrong.