Law 7162

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Nature of law and law making

  • Nature of law: rules, sources and the civil/criminal distinction

  • Law and society, law and morality, law and justice

  • The rule of law

  • Parliamentary law making and delegated legislation

  • Statutory interpretation

  • Judicial precedent

  • Law reform and the European Union

The English legal system

  • The civil courts and other forms of dispute resolution

  • The criminal courts and lay people

  • Legal personnel and the judiciary

  • Access to justice and funding

  • Legal skills: scenario analysis and legal argument

Criminal law (Paper 1)

  • The rules and theory of criminal law

  • General elements of liability

  • Fatal offences against the person

  • Non-fatal offences against the person

  • Property offences: theft and robbery

  • Attempt

  • Capacity defences: insanity, automatism, intoxication

  • Necessity defences: self-defence, duress, duress of circumstances

Tort (Paper 2)

  • The rules and theory of tort law

  • Negligence: physical injury to people and damage to property

  • Negligence: economic loss and psychiatric injury

  • Occupiers' liability

  • Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher

  • Vicarious liability

  • Defences in tort

  • Remedies in tort

Law of contract (Paper 3, Option A)

  • The rules and theory of contract law

  • Essential requirements: offer, acceptance, consideration, intention

  • Contract terms: express and implied terms, conditions and warranties

  • Consumer Rights Act 2015: implied terms and consumer remedies

  • Exclusion and limitation clauses

  • Vitiating factors: misrepresentation and economic duress

  • Discharge of a contract and remedies

Human rights (Paper 3, Option B)

  • Theory of rights and human rights in international law

  • Human rights in the UK before and after the Human Rights Act 1998

  • ECHR Articles 2 and 5: life, liberty and security of person

  • ECHR Articles 8, 10 and 11: privacy, expression, assembly and association

  • Restrictions and enforcement of human rights

  • Human rights and English law; reform

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