Digital notes now available!
Law Answered are now offering digital law notes.We know that these are difficult times for students at the moment. Lots of students have asked us for digital access to our...
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The difficulty with vicarious liability
Vicarious liability is always an interesting concept.It can be very important for the victim of a tort to establish that an apparent third party is vicariously liable for the acts...
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Free Guide to Take Home Assessments
We know that many law schools are changing their summer assessments due to coronavirus-related disruption and are instead setting “take home” assessments, 24 hour research projects and extended essays. We...
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Coronavirus is affecting every area of the law
We can all see what a massive challenge is being placed on the NHS (and indeed on health services around the world) from Covid 19. But is this health problem...
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Is land law your thing? What about adverse possession?
Land Law is really rather a marmite subject. Students tend to love it or loathe it but one of the areas of the subject with more general appeal is probably...
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Good news for LPC students - assessments to go online
The SRA has been slow in responding to COVID-19 related disruption, but it looks like there might be some hope now for LPC students worried about postponed exams. It looks...
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Digital copies of Law Answered guides coming soon!
We know a lot of law students are working from home now. Even before COVID-19 hit, we’d started work on a project to make all of our guides available as...
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How coronavirus is going to affect your law exams
Law schools and universities are now closed for the foreseeable future. Even before the lockdown announced last night, many had already closed their doors and sent their students to learn...
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Coronavirus and the English Legal System
The last fortnight has seen a rapid escalation of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK. With this escalation, people in the UK have come to realise the very real effect...
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Top tips for locked-down law students!
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities around the country to close their campuses and make the transition to remote and online study. Students will often spend a portion of their...
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A new way of managing discovery of documents
Those of you studying LPC will be familiar with the process of disclosure of documents (see page 33 of our LPC guide).Broadly, if you’re going to embark on litigation you...
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Who is liable in a tort case?
When someone is injured as a result of the civil fault of another it is quite common for more than one person to be found responsible for the injury. Indeed,...
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How might COVID-19 impact your client’s contractual obligations?
Force Majeure? What does it mean? When does it apply?Force Majeure clauses are utterly standard in substantial contracts and bring an end to parties’ liabilities in the event of a...
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How long is a limitation period?
You probably know that limitation periods apply in respect of litigation proceedings; public policy reasons for this are fairly obvious. Generally applicable periods are either 3 or 6 years, so...
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Covenant for quiet enjoyment
Don’t make a sound – I’ve got a covenant for quiet enjoymentCovenants by landlords to allow tenants quiet enjoyment of premises let to them are pretty standard and there are...
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Judicial support for Traveller communities
There has been much press comment on the outcome of the recent attempt by Bromley London Borough Council to secure what was effectively a borough wide ban to prevent the...
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Don't be in the 71% that fail!
The SRA has just released its annual quality assurance report which shows the LPC and GDL pass rates at different law schools. Pass rates differ hugely between law schools.Over the...
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When is court precedent binding?
We all learn about the hierarchy of courts in the English and Welsh jurisdiction as soon as we start to study law. Lower courts are bound by the decisions of...
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Supreme Court’s at it again! Must read on false imprisonment!
The Supreme Court has once again made a finding against the government. This time it’s in connection with a really interesting case of false imprisonment. R (on the application of...
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NEW LPC ELECTIVES NOW AVAILABLE
Newly updated editions of our LPC guides to Corporate Transactions, Corporate Finance, Debt Finance and Equity Finance are now available. Make sure you check out these guides if you are...
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Contract races & The new SRA conduct rules
Many of you who are studying the LPC this year are expecting to be examined on the new SRA Code of Conduct; this finally came into force on 25th November...
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What does Brexit mean for UK law?
If you’re in the process of studying EU, Public or Constitutional law now, then you need to read this post! It’s very likely that you’ll need to understand and refer...
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LPC Elective updates coming soon
We’re currently working on new editions of our LPC guides to Corporate Transactions, Corporate Finance, Debt Finance and Equity Finance. Our updated editions will be released in the week commencing...
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How I prepared for the QLTS
We don't write guides specifically for the QLTS, but often have students and overseas lawyers ask if our guides are helpful.We have quite a few customers using our GDL and...
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Veganism
Ethical veganism is a protected belief!Well, who knew that? We’ve all got good (and about time too) at recognising groups protected under the Equality Act 2010. Most law students can...
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Relief from forfeiture available in respect of a licence? Really!
If you’re keen on land law you’ll probably be quite excited by a Supreme Court case this week. If you’re in the process of studying land law (and particularly if...
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How lawyers write….
Here at Law Answered we care a lot about writing with clarity. We intend that our guides should be produced using clear, precise English so that you can readily understand...
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Miller2? What’s that about?
Lots of people have been talking about the case R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister but do you know what it was about? It’s a huge...
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LPC Core Guide Updated for new SRA Code of Conduct
The SRA’s new Standards and Regulations (“StaRs”) will come into force on 25th November 2019 © The Law Society. These new StaRs represent a very radical overhaul of the regulation...
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Unfairness in Contract law?
Who remembers Interfoto Picture Library v Stilletto Visual Programmes? It’s a contract case about incorporation of terms, in this case very onerous ones. The defendant borrowed transparencies from a lending...
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The new Code of Conduct - November update to LPC Answered Core Modules
The new SRA Standards and Regulations – or “StaRs” – come into force on 25th November 2019. This represents a radical overhaul of the regulation of solicitors and law firms,...
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Local Authority v JB
When does Art.8 ECHR go too far?Sometimes, we come across a case which just fascinates us from a moral as well as a legal perspective and we thought we’d share...
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Welcome to our new site!
Law Answered has been running across three separate sites until now. We’ve now decided to combine our sites together at lawanswered.com - which means you can take advantage of bundle...
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Legal Language
How should you write as a lawyer? Have you seen Jacob Rees-Mogg’s foray recently into providing advice for his team on how to write? Wow, due to his approach a...
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Farrell II - clearing up EU law confusion
Isn’t it nice when a new case comes along and explains some complex bit of law in such a way that makes everything fall into place? The good news is...
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Miller (No. 2) - Suspending Parliament
If you’re a law student you really do need to be able to talk about Miller (No.2). In terms of Constitutional and Public law it was an absolute cracker of...
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Brushett v Hazeldean
Are you a cyclist? If so the recent case of Brushett v Hazeldean matters to you. Mr Hazeldean was riding his bicycle across a junction when Ms Brushett walked out...
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NHS v Vasant
The great thing about the legal profession is its breadth and the really wide range of work available. Arguments between solicitors and barristers about the relative prestige and interest of...
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R v Bouchereau
This year we’ve embarked on a particularly comprehensive revision of our casebooks. We’ve thoroughly revised our GDL casebook, for example, the first time dates have been added to all cases...
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Imageview v Jack
Ongoing updating of the guides has brought me to Equity and Trusts. A bit of a “marmite subject” I think? Personally, I have always liked it, but I think there...
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What is happening with Brexit?
What a time to start studying Constitutional Law! When we updated our guides we revised (well, rewrote actually) the Brexit section extensively three times. Things were changing so much that...
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The Privacy International case
Here at Law Answered we’ve been hard at work updating all our guides to take account of changes in law and legal practice over the last year. We are in...
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Search Orders
Sometimes the learning of all the law you need to know for professional qualification can seem like a never ending slog. We know! We’ve been there and going through all...
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The new Law Answered blog
Welcome to our new Law Answered Blog.When we’re updating our guides we inevitably have to make judgement calls as to what should be included and what left out. Without doubt...