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Law (9084)
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Free Law (9084) revision notes for Cambridge International A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Principles and sources of English law (Paper 1)
English legal system and its context
Parliamentary law making
Delegated legislation
Statutory interpretation
Judicial precedent
Machinery of justice and legal personnel (Paper 1)
Civil courts and civil process
Alternative methods of dispute resolution
Criminal courts and criminal process
Police powers
The judiciary
Legal professionals
Lay magistrates
Juries
Criminal law: elements of a crime and sentencing (Paper 2)
Actus reus: the conduct element
Actus reus by omission
Causation in criminal law
Mens rea: intention
Mens rea: recklessness
Sentencing adult offenders
Sentencing young offenders
Aims of sentencing
Criminal law: offences against property (Paper 2)
Theft (s1 Theft Act 1968)
Robbery (s8 Theft Act 1968)
Burglary and aggravated burglary (s9 and s10 Theft Act 1968)
Blackmail (s21 Theft Act 1968)
Handling stolen goods (s22 Theft Act 1968)
Making off without payment (s3 Theft Act 1978)
Criminal damage (Criminal Damage Act 1971)
Fraud (Fraud Act 2006)
Formation of a valid contract (Paper 3)
Nature of a contract
Offer and acceptance
Intention to create legal relations
Consideration
Capacity: minors
Contents of a contract (Paper 3)
Express terms
Terms implied by the Consumer Rights Act 2015
Status of terms: conditions, warranties and innominate terms
Control of exemption clauses
Discharge of a contract and remedies (Paper 3)
Discharge by performance
Discharge by breach
Frustration
Damages at common law
Equitable remedies in contract
The tort of negligence, general defences and remedies (Paper 4)
Nature of liability in negligence
Duty of care
Breach of duty
Causation and remoteness of damage
Novel duty situations: economic loss and nervous shock
General defences in tort
Remedies in tort
Torts affecting land and the person (Paper 4)
Occupiers' liability
Private nuisance
Rylands v Fletcher
Trespass to land
Assault
Battery
False imprisonment
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