PGDL ANSWERED CORE GUIDE

Our PGDL Answered Core Guide is a set of notes for the substantive postgraduate diploma in law conversion course subjects: Contract Law, Criminal Law, Torts, Land Law, Trusts, Public Law and Company law.

Topics covered are designed to match both the PGDL syllabus and the matching parts of the SQE1 syllabus. A detailed list of specific topics covered is below.

Each topic is addressed in one (or both) of two formats to match the way in which the PGDL course is examined:

  • as an explanation and summary of the topic. This is to help students understand the core points of complex topics in order to answer multiple choice questions; and/or

  • as a template answer to a “problem question”. This is to help students get straight to the point and answer long-form exam questions efficiently.

Our PGDL Answered Core Modules Guide will be comprehensively rewritten and updated each year by qualified lawyers with input from top students at a range of law schools. Our first edition was released in November 2020, and new editions have been released every September ready for each new academic year.

We have two versions of our PGDL Core Guide - our original version is suitable for students studying the PGDL at any law school and a ULaw specific guide.

 

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PGDL TOPICS COVERED

  • Offer and Acceptance

    Intention to Create Legal Relations, and Capacity

    Consideration, Variation of Terms and Promissory Estoppel

    Duress

    Undue Influence

    Terms: Express, Implied, Exemption Clauses, Interpretation and Unfair Terms

    Misrepresentation

    Privity and Third Party Rights

    Mistake

    Breach, Termination and Frustration

    Remedies: Damages, Liquidated Sums, Penalties, Causation, Remoteness, Mitigation, Specific Performance and Injunctions

    Intention to Create Legal Relations, Duress and Capacity are covered within the above topics in the PGDL ULaw guide

  • General Negligence

    Duty of Care

    Standard and Breach of Duty

    Causation

    Remoteness

    General Defences

    Remedies

    Vicarious Liability

    Employers’ Primary Liability

    Psychiatric Injury

    Pure Economic Loss

    Torts Relating to Land

    Private Nuisance

    Public Nuisance

    The Rule in Rylands v Fletcher

    Occupiers’ Liability

    Product Liability

    Consumer Protection Act 1987

    ULaw edition additional chapters: Trespass to the Person, Defamation, .

    Duty of care, causation, remoteness, and general defences are covered within the above topics in the PGDL ULaw guide.

    Nuisance and the Rule in Rylands v Fletcher are not covered in the ULaw guide.

  • Core Principles of Criminal Liability

    Murder and Voluntary Manslaughter

    Involuntary Manslaughter

    Criminal Damage

    Theft

    Robbery and Burglary

    Fraud

    Non-Fatal Offences

    Defences

    Inchoate Offences

    Multiple Parties

    ULaw edition additional chapters: Driving Offences, Sexual Offences, Corporate Manslaughter, Making off Without Payment, Accomplice Liability and Attempts.

  • Business Models

    Companies

    Incorporation and Company Constitution

    Corporate Personality and LIfting the Veil

    Ultra Vires and Pre-Incorporation Contracts

    Directors and the Board

    Directors’ Duties

    Shares and Shareholders

    Minority Shareholder Remedies

    Capital, Equity Finance and Debt Finance

    Corporate Insolvency

  • The Trust Relationship

    The Three Certainties

    Beneficiaries

    Trustees

    Breach of Trust and Fiduciary Duty

    Proprietary and Receipt-based Claims and Tracing

    Creation of Private Express Trusts

    Charitable Trusts

    Trusts Arising by Operation of Law

    Trusts of the Family Home

    Proprietary Estoppel

  • Estates in Land and the System of Registered Land

    What is Land?

    Mortgages

    Easements

    Freehold Covenants

    Enforcement of Interets

    Co-ownership of Land

    Leases: Contents of a Lease

    Leasehold Covenants and Remedies

    Termination of a Lease

    Enforceability of Leasehold Covenants

  • Key Principles of the UK Constitution

    The Workings of Parliament and Government

    Parliamentary Sovereignty

    Separation of Powers

    Royal Prerogative

    Rule of Law

    Constitutional Essay Plans

    European Institutions and Introduction to EU Law

    EU Law and National Courts

    EU Law in the UK after Brexit

    Nature and Process of Judicial Review

    The Four Grounds of Judicial Review: Illegality, Unreasonableness, Procedural Unfairness, Legitimate Expectation

    The Equality Act 2010

    Human Rights in the UK and Compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights

    Substantive Violations: Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10

 
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