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Law 7162
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Free Law 7162 study notes for AQA A Level students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Paper 1
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
Paper 2
The nature of law and the English legal system
Paper 3
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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