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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.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities around the country to close their campuses and make the transition to remote and online study. Students will often spend a portion of their day working from their room or accommodation anyway, so while this change may be less extreme than people with jobs being forced to work from home, studying away from the university campus presents its own challenges and opportunities.
The last fortnight has seen a rapid escalation of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK. With this escalation, people in the UK have come to realise the very real effect it will have on everyone in this country. On 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined strict new measures: people should leave home only to exercise once a day, to travel to and from work where "absolutely necessary", to shop for essential items and to fulfil any medical or care needs. Along with pubs, cinemas, theaters and leisure centres shops selling non-essential goods are now closed.
Those of you studying LPC will be familiar with the process of disclosure of documents (see page 33 of our LPC guide).
Broadly, if you’re going to embark on litigation you have to let the other side see relevant documents.
You probably know that limitation periods apply in respect of litigation proceedings; public policy reasons for this are fairly obvious. Generally applicable periods are either 3 or 6 years, so what if the claim was brought 35 years after the action complained of? A non-starter surely? Actually no. The action has been allowed to proceed in Young v Downey [2019].
Don’t make a sound – I’ve got a covenant for quiet enjoyment
Covenants by landlords to allow tenants quiet enjoyment of premises let to them are pretty standard and there are lots of cases around what is meant by that particular covenant. (For those of you yet to embark on the joys of Land law a quick translation of the first part of this – let’s go with “Promises by landlords to give tenants a bit of peace in the premises for which the tenants are paying rent”).
There has been much press comment on the outcome of the recent attempt by Bromley London Borough Council to secure what was effectively a borough wide ban to prevent the Gypsy and Traveller community from setting up camps. (Bromley v Persons Unknown 2020). The Local Authority’s application failed in the High Court and its appeal was unsuccessful.
