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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?
This isn’t likely to be any part of your syllabus, but for those applying for law firms questions about the future direction of the legal profession are quite common. You’ll often find yourself gazing into a crystal ball as you try to work out what challenges and opportunities might be before law firms. Plainly Brexit and Covid-19 are very large elephants in the room and offer endless scope for pontification, but perhaps you’d like to write about, or answer questions on, something else?
I quite often hear from you that critical thinking assessment is the area that you perform less well at, find it rather difficult, and in consequence, stressful. The reality is that you cannot skip it, for most City law firms require you to take Watson Glaser or other critical thinking test (CTT) in order to progress with your training contract or vacation scheme applications. If we cannot leave it behind, we must learn how to live with it, and in this case, how to develop your critical thinking skills.
As the country continues the fight to reduce the spread of COVID-19, workers and students are getting used to a new normal where social distancing will be part of normal life. For many this means that the transition into a working from home lifestyle is here to stay for a while.
Many law students will have heard of a key piece of legislation: the Insolvency Act 1986, which is the primary act setting out insolvency procedures and liability for wrongful and fraudulent trading. The procedures in the 1986 Act have been under review for some years, but in the space of just 6 short weeks, Parliament has now enacted several hundred more pages of legislation in the form of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, most of which came into force on 26 June 2020.
We update our books every year and in order to do this we have to keep track of change in statute law and important new cases. We have to decide what is relevant for inclusion and what is not, generally it’s not too difficult to call, but sometimes we can get sidetracked by something really interesting which just doesn’t quite fit into our guides.
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?).
