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When it comes to getting through your law exams and finding your dream job can feel like the biggest challenge there is. We totally get it. So many questions. So many decisions. It’s overwhelming.
And if there is one thing law students don’t have… is a lot of spare time to be figuring this all out yourself.
That’s why we’ve created the Answered Squad. Want to find out more?
Normally courts interpret and uphold statutory law as it stands and develop case law according to the doctrine of precedent. These, however, are not exactly normal times, we’ve all been locked up and working from home for months and now the courts have decided to take action on the basis of a statute which has yet to be introduced.
We’re all pretty familiar with the old adage “caveat emptor” or buyer beware and those studying the LPC will have notes that stress that even after all the record searches have been completed a visual inspection of the property remains important and that such inspection might raise new enquiries which need to be dealt with.
There is no way about it, revision is boring. Hours sat at a desk trying to cram information in is enough to make anyone crazy. No one wants to spend their evenings and weekends revising. More importantly, no one wants to spend all their free time trying to revise but not getting anywhere. Here are our top five tips to help make your revision effective and efficient so you can get some of that time back and pass your exams first time.
As the Covid 19 pandemic became increasingly disruptive and deadly in the UK the Courts produced a Protocol Regarding Remote Hearings (dated 26th March 2020). This effectively set a default position that court cases should move to remote hearings; it’s very flexible in permitting any practicable platform to be used (who would have dreamed in advance that the judiciary, bar and solicitors would so quickly have got to grips with the range of technologies available?).
Over the past week we’ve posted blogs on the kind of research skills and essay planning skills that LLB students will need to deal with take home assessments such as 24 hour essay projects. Writing is a key legal skill, whether it is legal drafting, preparing memos or emails, or writing letters to clients or third parties. Here at Law Answered we’ve put together a detailed free guide to legal writing skills (which you can sign up for below), and in this blog we thought we’d share a few tips.
With law schools and universities having closed their doors due to the escalating COVID-19 situation, many are now proposing to assess their students by way of “take home” examinations. In our blog last week, we talked about research skills and where to begin your answer. Once you have researched relevant primary and secondary sources to support your argument in reaching your answer, the next step is taking the time to plan your essay.
With law schools and universities having closed their doors due to the escalating COVID-19 situation, many are now proposing to assess their students by way of “take home” examinations. . To excel in these kind of take home assessments you’ll need to hone a different set of skills to those that you might have been working on for the rest of the year. Research skills will be particularly important, so we thought we’d share a few quick tips.
We know that many law schools are changing their summer assessments due to coronavirus-related disruption and are instead setting “take home” assessments, 24 hour research projects and extended essays. We therefore thought it would be helpful to put together a free guide to help you prepare for these unusual assessments.
We can all see what a massive challenge is being placed on the NHS (and indeed on health services around the world) from Covid 19. But is this health problem heavily impacting the law? It certainly is! We’ve already written about force majeure but here is a quick overview of some of the other areas impacted.
Land Law is really rather a marmite subject. Students tend to love it or loathe it but one of the areas of the subject with more general appeal is probably adverse possession.
There is something rather fascinating about the idea that if you can get into possession of some land and use it as you please for long enough, (without the true owner asserting any rights over it) then eventually it’s yours! Perhaps we all hope we’re going to be lucky enough to get some land this way?
The SRA has been slow in responding to COVID-19 related disruption, but it looks like there might be some hope now for LPC students worried about postponed exams. It looks like the regulator is considering allowing exams to take place online. This will be great news for students worried about the effect postponing assessments will have on their career. Details of what the online assessments will be are yet to come though. Find out more on the Law Gazette.
