Our LPC Answered Core Guide is a set of notes for all of the core “Part I” Legal Practice Course subjects: Civil Litigation, Criminal Litigation, Property Law and Practice, Business Law and Practice, Tax, Wills and the Administration of Estates, Professional Conduct and Regulation and Solicitor’s Accounts. LPC Answered also includes a short section on Skills assessments. Each topic is summarised and detailed as a first-class set of notes to help you study and revise for the LPC.  

Our LPC Answered Core Modules Guide has been comprehensively rewritten and updated this year by qualified lawyers with input from top students at a wide range of law schools. Our latest edition was comprehensively updated in July 2022 for the 2022-23 academic year.

You can find a full list of subjects covered in our LPC Answered Core Modules Guide, and you can view samples here. 

We also have notes for a number of LPC Electives available elsewhere on our site. LPC Answered has the widest range of LPC Electives notes available on the market. You can find out more about our LPC Electives notes on our LPC homepage. 

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CORE GUIDE OVERVIEW

 
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CIVIL LITIGATION

  • Key Terms

  • Pre-action Considerations

  • Timeline of an Action

  • The Claim Form and Other Documents

  • How to Draft Statements of Case – Particulars of Claim and Defences (with template documents)

  • Case Management, Allocation & Directions

  • Disclosure

  • Evidence

  • Experts

  • Interim Applications & Injunctions

  • Settlement

  • Part 36 Offers

  • Preparations for Trial

  • Costs

  • Enforcement of Judgments

  • Appeals

  • Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution

  • Jurisdiction

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BUSINESS LAW & PRACTICE

  • Key Terms

  • Choosing a Business Structure – Sole Trader, Partnership or Limited Company?

  • Setting up a Company

  • Company Decision-Making

  • Procedure Plans and Reporting Requirements

  • Directors' Powers and Duties

  • Conflicts of Interest

  • Substantial Property Transactions

  • Loans to Directors

  • Shareholder Rights & Remedies

  • Allotment of Shares & Pre-emption Rights

  • Maintenance of Share Capital – Own Share Purchase & Redemption

  • Debt & Equity Finance – Procedures & Comparisons

  • Acquisitions / M&A – Share Sales, Asset Sales and Financial Assistance

  • Insolvency – Procedures, Administration, CVAs & Challenging Transactions

  • Joint Ventures

  • Partnerships

  • Business Accounts - Analysing Financial Statements

  • Example Procedure Plans for various types of transactions

 
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CRIMINAL LITIGATION

  • Conduct in Criminal Litigation

  • Public Funding

  • Key Police Powers & Obligations

  • Detainees' Rights

  • Advising at the Police Station

  • Evidence – At the Police Station & in Court

  • Court Bail

  • Court Procedure – Magistrates’ Court or Crown Court?

  • Preparation for Trial

  • Trial

  • Sentencing

  • Appeals

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PROPERTY LAW & PRACTICE

  • Key Terms

  • Investigating Title

  • Drafting the Contract

  • Exchange and Completion

  • Purchasing a New Property on an Estate

  • Unregistered Land

  • Leasehold Contracts

  • Landlord's Remedies

  • Leasehold Licences

  • Alienation – Sub-Leases & Assignment

  • Commercial Security of Tenure

 
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WILLS & THE ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

  • Basics - Establishing and Distributing the Estate

  • Distribution under the Will

  • Distribution under the Intestacy Rules

  • The Grant of Representation

  • Personal Representatives – Duties & Powers

  • Inheritance Tax

PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT & REGULATION

  • The SRA Codes of Conduct 2019:

    • Client Care

    • Conflicts of Interest

    • Confidentiality

    • Disclosure

    • Undertakings

    • Your Relationship with the Court

  • The General Prohibition under section 19 FSMA

  • Financial Promotions under section 21 FSMA

  • Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing

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Tax

  • Income Tax

  • Capital Gains Tax

  • Corporation Tax

  • VAT

  • Stamp Duty

  • Inheritance Tax

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SKILLS

  • Research

  • Writing

  • Drafting

  • Interviewing

  • Advocacy

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Solicitors' Accounts

  • Underlying concepts

  • Double-entry bookkeeping

  • Various basic transactions

  • Property transactions

  • Dishonoured cheques

  • Accounting for VAT and interest

  • Financial Statements for clients

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