[Miss_F]

Originally Posted by moonbino

I am doing Criminal, Property, Tort and Equity but I want to drop Equity and do Contract instead. Can someone please recommend a topics list for Contract. Thanks! Very desperate here!

Iam also doing Contract not a whole lot to leave out here but in my opinion main topics would be:

Offer & Acceptance
Consideration
Estoppel
Capacity (comes up a fair bit usually regarding children)
Privity
Misrepresentation
Mistake
Illegality
Discharge
Remedies

Thats just my opinion and what iam doing others may have a different view.

[moonbino]

Originally Posted by Miss_F

Iam also doing Contract not a whole lot to leave out here but in my opinion main topics would be:

Offer & Acceptance
Consideration
Estoppel
Capacity (comes up a fair bit usually regarding children)
Privity
Misrepresentation
Mistake
Illegality
Discharge
Remedies

Thats just my opinion and what iam doing others may have a different view.

Thank you so much Miss_F. All the best with your exams. :-)

[JCJCJC]

Originally Posted by moonbino

Thank you so much Miss_F. All the best with your exams. :-)

Do Damages as well, Prof Robt Clarke (FE1 external examiner) published an article on it which you'll get on Westlaw and it came up, I think in Oct 2010 as an essay question - read his article, it's all in there.

[JCJCJC]

Originally Posted by randomuser77

Don't suppose you could suggest specific cases or areas that are worth updating?

Indeed I could! These are the 2010 cases:

Dellway v Nama, IEHC (but look at the eventual SC outcome as well)
Meadows v MinJELR
Digital Right Ireland v Min Comms
LK (A Minor) v Independent Star
Hickey v Sunday Newspapers
Doherty v Govt Irl
DPP v McCrea
Byrne v DPP
Lynch v MJELR
MJELR v Adach
O'Murchu v Taoiseach
O'Maicin v Eire
Carlin v DPP
Hygiea v Ir Med Bd.
X v MJELR
Unite v Min Fin.
McKenzie v Min Fin.
Blehein v Min Health
O'Sullivan ve CEO Prison Service
Temple St v D

Check if there was a SC subsequent decision on any of those, but your examiner in early 2011 thought they were all very important, and I think one or two came up subsequently as case-note questions. He has a real 'thing' about the right to fair procedures - NB it is not a free-standing right. It only arises when another right is invaded. So, if for example a County Council proposed to compulsorily acquire your farm, that's an invasion of your property rights. ONLY THEN does the right to fair procedures arise - ok? Make that point clearly if you can because he has a real bee in his butt about it. Can't help you on the 2011 cases, but perhaps he'll do another lecture in TCD before the exams and review 2011.

JC

[moonbino]

Originally Posted by JCJCJC

Do Damages as well, Prof Robt Clarke (FE1 external examiner) published an article on it which you'll get on Westlaw and it came up, I think in Oct 2010 as an essay question - read his article, it's all in there.

Thank you JCJCJC! :-)

[t2340]

Thanks JC. Gonna plough through it for the time being so!

Does anyone have tort exam papers and reports? I have EU, Constitutional, Company and Equity that I can swap?

[KMPT]

Hi everyone. Would anyone have the past exam papers and examiner reports for Contract 2009, 2010, and 2011? Or if you only have sample answers that would be good. I can email you 2007-2010 sample answers for Constitution, Company, EU and Criminal. Thanks.

[randomuser77]

Originally Posted by JCJCJC

Indeed I could! These are the 2010 cases:

Dellway v Nama, IEHC (but look at the eventual SC outcome as well)
Meadows v MinJELR
Digital Right Ireland v Min Comms
LK (A Minor) v Independent Star
Hickey v Sunday Newspapers
Doherty v Govt Irl
DPP v McCrea
Byrne v DPP
Lynch v MJELR
MJELR v Adach
O'Murchu v Taoiseach
O'Maicin v Eire
Carlin v DPP
Hygiea v Ir Med Bd.
X v MJELR
Unite v Min Fin.
McKenzie v Min Fin.
Blehein v Min Health
O'Sullivan ve CEO Prison Service
Temple St v D

Check if there was a SC subsequent decision on any of those, but your examiner in early 2011 thought they were all very important, and I think one or two came up subsequently as case-note questions. He has a real 'thing' about the right to fair procedures - NB it is not a free-standing right. It only arises when another right is invaded. So, if for example a County Council proposed to compulsorily acquire your farm, that's an invasion of your property rights. ONLY THEN does the right to fair procedures arise - ok? Make that point clearly if you can because he has a real bee in his butt about it. Can't help you on the 2011 cases, but perhaps he'll do another lecture in TCD before the exams and review 2011.

JC

JC, you are an absolute legend!

[M.victory1]

Does any1 have an equity and criminal grid??

[JCJCJC]

Originally Posted by randomuser77

JC, you are an absolute legend!

Nah. I just went along to the dude's lecture last year with Hogzy and we got the handout and had a very polite cup of TCD-tea with him afterwards without pretending we were the lowest form of life, FE1 cannon-fodder. But thanks anyway.

JC

[filosoraptor]

Originally Posted by JCJCJC

This isn't a mathematical science, as they say. What one of us finds easy might be very difficult for another. I'm ok on property, was good at it in college and did a Final Year Project on adverse possession etc so I wouldn't be afraid of the exam, but I would personally find Tort ok too - in fact, I've passed Tort twice in the FE1s due to only getting two at the first attempt. Property has good banker topics, you get two succession questions and one on adverse possession usually. After that, you make a selection from a lucky-bag of topics and that's where the grid comes in useful, things like Treasure Trove are easy and quick to study and if the question comes up you'll be delighted. You can really use the cross-over knowledge by saying stuff like 'Webb v Ireland was a landmark case that established not only the state of the law on buried objects simpliciter, but also dealt with important points of law in relation to matters including sovereignty and promissory estoppel'. You are then showing that you know the case and the subject well.

For me, EU is a nightmare, but I accept that many people find it straightforward, and more luck to them. I'm here right now grappling with procedures before the EU courts. Awful stuff.

JC

Good man JC, there's no end to your giving! Appreciate it anyway. Think I'm gonna take Property as my 3rd. From anyone I've talked to it sounds like its up there as one of the easiest due to its predictability.

On an unrelated note, do you, or anyone else, know whether you should be looking for a Traineeship or Summer Internship after having past 3, or either as whatever you can get you'd be lucky?!? Or even is there a separate thread dedicated to this on here somewhere??

[JCJCJC]

Originally Posted by filosoraptor

Good man JC, there's no end to your giving! Appreciate it anyway. Think I'm gonna take Property as my 3rd. From anyone I've talked to it sounds like its up there as one of the easiest due to its predictability.

On an unrelated note, do you, or anyone else, know whether you should be looking for a Traineeship or Summer Internship after having past 3, or either as whatever you can get you'd be lucky?!? Or even is there a separate thread dedicated to this on here somewhere??

LMAO here! A thread on traineeships right now would be a very short one, in my humble. After three? I have six passed and won't expect anything until I have all eight, and I'm probably even looking at a TC without any pay then. A summer internship is really a fancy name for a summer job in a solicitors' office. It beats washing cars, driving silage trailers and packing shelves I suppose, but with courts on vacation there won't be a lot of excitement. Sorry to sound such a low note but it's horrendous out there. I know unemployed young solicitors who would now work for what used to be trainee's wages. Well gone are the days when a practise would continue to pay your trainee wages while you were in Blackhall. I know one solicitor who paid 135k for a new 05 Mercedes CL. He asked me lately if I knew anyone who'd possibly give 15k for it, all he is being offered is 5k. It has been parked for two years because he can't any longer afford to tax and insure it. Times are really tough, just persevere with your studies and hope the recession ends around about when your studies do.

JC

[lbcoconut]

Hi, just wondering if any of you had a copy of the criminal, contract, property or equity exam paper from April 2011/Oct 2011 would they be able to pm me?

[banterful]

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has seen the Oct 11 Property exam report? No sign of it yet in the prep course I'm doing but I know the other subjects are out so presume it's out there! If anyone has it would be happy to swap materials from any of the other subjects - have pretty much all exam grids, sample answers up to Oct 2010, etc.

Finally, anyone have up to date griffith sample answers i.e. Oct 2010 answers? Again, happy to send on anything you need in return...

PM me if interested. Cheers!

[Amre17]

Hi all,

Hope study is going well..

Could someone tell me which course syllabus is bigger - EU or Constitutional??

Doing one this sitting but won't be starting the subject for another week or so so im eager to take on the smaller subject even if it's only marginal!

Thanking you all..