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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?
Here at Law Answered we love a double bank holiday weekend. What’s not to like - a four-day weekend, two four-day weeks and lots of chocolate to eat!
However, we know that Easter marks the start of revision season for many students. So we wanted to bring the fun to you this weekend so you don’t miss out!
If you’re an aspiring lawyer you cannot afford to ignore last month’s decision of the Supreme Court in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance. If you’re looking to be a commercial lawyer don’t try to go into an interview without a clear understanding of this case – for everyone else the law on causation has shifted. That’s all round a pretty big deal!
Ok, so Covid has affected every single aspect of our lives and has and is causing huge problems with the court systems. There have been outbreaks of Covid emanating from the courts, there are shortages of judiciary to hear cases and a massive backlog of cases. On top of all of that Covid is now apparently rampant in our prisons. Covid’s impact on limitation periods is just one more thing!
If you’ve studies Civil Lit you’ll have learnt about search orders – draconian in nature these empower solicitors to look for particular categories of documents which are described in advance to the court. These orders are made infrequently and only where the court is persuaded that there is good reason that if the order is not made then relevant documents might go missing.
Are you bent on civil disobedience? What if that means you breach a court order?
We’re all lawyers here at Law Answered and sometimes, when we’re looking at law updates we come across cases which just interest us. Secretary of State for Transport and another v Cuciuran [2020] is just one of those and we thought we’d share it with you!
Well no. It doesn’t! This might come as quite a surprise to some. Since the UK had been a member of the EU for nearly 50 years our laws were comprehensively entwined with EU laws and in order to prevent a serious lacuna in the legal system the government enacted the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“EU(W)A”). The EU(W)A created the concept of retained law effectively writing EU law wholesale into UK law.
Everyone who has studied tort is familiar with the difficulties faced by secondary victims in seeking to make a recovery for psychiatric harm or shock suffered in relation to being a party to shocking events without themselves suffering any physical harm. There are a plethora of reported cases for you to draw on in any essays on the subject.
In last week’s blog we talked all about getting work experience during a pandemic. We promised we give you some of our thoughts on what you can do to make yourself job ready. This is all about your transferable skills. A good place to start is a little skills audit of your own.
What skills do you need to be a solicitor? Here are a few quick ideas…
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The SQE’s multiple choice questions (MCQs) can be tricky to answer. Answering MCQs requires you to learn a particular exam technique, in which you slow down and look out for the details. We’ve talked about that in our blog here, but there’s one point we really need to make again!
A common political tactic is to use a bigger event that is currently distracting the public as cover to release potentially harmful or embarrassing information. Coronavirus is the distraction that the current government is using to mount an inquiry into judicial review. However, such a review should come as no surprise. It is clear that there has been mounting tension between the judiciary and the executive in recent years with successive governments being frustrated by what they see as excessive and expanding judicial interference in politics – the peak of this being the two Miller cases.
