Law Resources 2021-22

Defining misrepresentation: Examine the three types of misrepresentation. This article will help you revise vitiating factors.

Consent and criminal law: Real and informed consent, and the exceptions to this defence.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and criminal law: Use these questions to help you prepare for AQA Paper 1.

Tort law: problems in occupiers’ liability: What questions should be posed to apply the tort law of occupiers’ liability to a scenario?

Understanding reasonabless in occupiers’ liability: Examine the definition of reasonabless in relation to the Occupiers’ Liability Act.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and the law of tort: Use these questions to help you prepare for AQA paper 2.

Ten things you need to now about the enforcement of human rights law: Craig Beauman outlines ten key points to aid your revision.

Updating the criminal justice system: A summary of recent reforms to the English legal system. One of the skills you will need to learn during your studies and a career in the law is a willingness to keep up to date with new developments.

Evaluating human rights: Giles Bayliss assesses whether Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights adequately achieves a balance between the rights of the individual and the regulation needed in a democratic society.

Examination focus: rules of involuntary manslaughter: Amin Ladha examines the issues of applying the rules of involuntary manslaughter. When completing a scenario question on involuntary mansalughter, you will need to know the law on either unlawful act manslaughter or gross negligence manslaughter, or in some instances, you may need to apply the law on both. This article will help you revise fatal offences against the person.

Law updates: Craig Beauman keeps you up to date with the latest developments in topics across the A-level law specifications. In this issue he looks at: statutory interpretation, judicial review and sentencing (while-life order) within the English legal system; self-defence within criminal law; and negligence within tort law.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and contract law: Use these questions to help you prepare for AQA Paper 3.

Statutory interpretation: A guide to statutory interpretation in the English legal system. Statutory interpretation is a law-making topic. Examiners will want to test your understanding and knowledge of its main features.

Examination focus: revision planning: Liz Nuttall lays out effective prepatory steps for revision. At the start, revising can seem like an impossible task. The trick to overcoming these moments of panic and stress is to take some prepatory steps to get yourself organised ahead of conducting your revision.

The rights of third parties: Privity of contract and the exceptions to this within contract law. One of the key principles studied in contract law is that of privity of contract. This article will help you revise theory of contract law and essential requirements of contracts.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and human rights law option

Whole-life sentences: the murder of Sarah Everard: Hannah Eldridge summarises the 2021 case that saw a Metropolitan police officer receive a whole-life sentence.

Human rights law: trespass and public order: The criminal law of trespass can be used in a public order context and has links to human rights.

Examination focus: revising cases in Rylands v Fletcher: Top tips and best practice for learning this popular examination topic in tort law. This article is relevant to your revision for Paper 2.

Liability for economic loss: approaching problem questions in negligence: Types of economic loss and how to address them in an exam question. This article supports your unit on Tort law and your study of Liability in negligence for economic loss.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and criminal law: Use these questions to help you prepare for AQA Paper 1.

Theft: how to determine dishonesty: At a trial for theft, the jury must determine whether the defendant has acted dishonestly and this article critically assesses the legal background that informs such an important decision-making process.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and the law of tort: Use these questions to help you prepare for AQA Paper 2.

Ten things you need to know about self-defence

Medical negligence and the Bolam test: How is medical negligence determined? This article supports your unit on Tort.

Examination focus: study skills: AQA law: how to tackle the 30-mark questions: While answering (and understanding how to answer) each of the questions in an A-level exam is important, it is partcularly important to prepare thoroughly for the 30-mark questions.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and contract law: Use these questions to help you prepare for AQA Paper 3.

Law updates: Craig Beaumann keeps you up to date with the latest developments in topics across the A-level law specifications. In this issue he looks at fault and the Bolam principles in Tort law; strict liability and fradulent obtaining of consent in criminal law; and misrepresentation in contract law.

Examination focus: tackling formation questions in contract law: How to approach problem questions on the formation of a contract.

Key concepts: AQA question 9: Rowena Mudge examines concepts of law and how to approach them in exams.

Law on screen: The dramatisation of the O. J. Simpson case.

Examination focus: criminal law: voluntary and involuntary intoxication: Laura Ithier examines the difference between voluntary and involuntary intoxication. This article supports your unit on Criminal law.

Reading for a law degree: Recommended reading ahead of studying law.

Attempted crimes: where do you draw the line? Why should the criminal law punish a person who tries, but fails, to commit a crime? Where do you draw the metaphorical ‘line in the sand’ between planning a crime and falling just short of committing a crime? If there is a line to be drawn in the sand, then a jury must decide where that line is drawn. This unit supports your unit on Criminal law.

Examination focus: tort defences: Anna Stokes provides an overview of two general tort defences, of paticular relevance to the tort of negligence. This article supports your unit on Tort.

Examination focus: specific issues in theft and robbery: Amin Ladha looks at common scenario problems around theft. This article supports your unit on Criminal law.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and criminal law: Use these questions to help you prepare for the AQA Paper 1.

Examination focus: assessment objectives in A-level law: What do assessment objectives (AOs) mean for you?

Regulation of legal professionals: Laura Ithier provides a brief overview of the regulation of solicitors, barristers and legal executives, including the consequences for these practitioners of breaching professional standards. This article supports your unit on The nature of law and the English legal system.

Ten things you need to know about exclusion causes: Craig Beauman outlines ten key points to aid your revision. This article supports your unit on Law of contract.

Negligence and psychiatric injury: Reviewing primary victim status and proximity factors for secondary victims in psychiatric harm claims. This article supports your unit on Tort.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and the law of tort: Use these questions to help you prepare for AQA Paper 2.

Examination focus: judicial precedent: The impact of the 1966 Practice Statement on judicial precedent. This article supports your unit on The nature of law and the English legal system.

Artistic expression and human rights: Freedom of expression is of fundamental importance to democracy and human existence. Without it, the free exchange of opinions and ideas and the ability to challenge conventional viewpoints and perspectives would not be possible. Society as we know it could not exist.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and contract law: Use these questions to help you prepare for AQA Paper 3.

The margin of appreciation: in human rights.

Practice exam questions: English legal system and human rights

Law updates: Craig Beauman keeps you up to date with the latest developments in topics across the A-level law specifications. This issue looks at updates in criminal law (insanity), tort law (vicarious liability and occupiers’ liability) and human rights (Article 8 ECHR).

Jury equity and the Colston verdict: Explaining the concept of jury equity in relation to a recent case. This article supports your unit on The nature of law and the English legal system.