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OMGWACA

Hey does anyone have an up to date grid for Tort please? I only have one as far as October 2017! Please and thanks!

Gunslinger92

If anyone could send me a constitutional grid I'd be most grateful

OMGWACA

Doing Tort, EU and Constitutional. As always I'm trying to cut corners where I can but especially for this sitting with such heavy topics!

If anyone has an up to date Tort grid they could send me I'd really appreciate it!

In the meantime, going off a grid 1 sitting off, I was going to cover the following topics;

1. Trespass/Nuisance/Rylands
2. Duty of Care
3. Causation/Remoteness
4. Ordinary Negligence
5. Vicarious Liability
6. Occupier's Liability
7. Trespass to the Person
8. Products Liability
9. Defamation
10. Damages/Quantum
11. Negligent Misstatement
12. Nervous Shock

Suggestions, edits? Take out anything, add in anything?

Pyggg

Finally got a response off the Office of public works. They quoted me €2.54, 9.65, and 7.62 for Bunreacht na hEireann, LCLRA, and Succession Act respectively. Is this correct? It seems very low prices to me. Just wanted to double check even though I explained I was sitting the FE1s so no doubt they are correct. Thanks a mill

Leraf

Pyggg wrote: »

Finally got a response off the Office of public works. They quoted me €2.54, 9.65, and 7.62 for Bunreacht na hEireann, LCLRA, and Succession Act respectively. Is this correct? It seems very low prices to me. Just wanted to double check even though I explained I was sitting the FE1s so no doubt they are correct. Thanks a mill

Yes it seems right. I remember spending less than 20euro on mine. I was surprised how cheap it was.

Pyggg

Leraf wrote: »

Yes it seems right. I remember spending less than 20euro on mine. I was surprised how cheap it was.

Great, thank you

Pollylou75

Any tips for topics likely to come up in equity and constitutional

holliek

Can anyone tell me what areas of interlocutory injunctions have previously been examined? i.e. what are the important parts? I know Cyanamid principles and Campus Oil are important but just wondering the extent of what is to be known?

Also any general tips for equity would be great!!

Leraf

holliek wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what areas of interlocutory injunctions have previously been examined? i.e. what are the important parts? I know Cyanamid principles and Campus Oil are important but just wondering the extent of what is to be known?

Also any general tips for equity would be great!!

You should look at the past papers and reports.

jus_me

Any tips from those who have passed equity/EU?

Supermax1988

OMGWACA wrote: »

Doing Tort, EU and Constitutional. As always I'm trying to cut corners where I can but especially for this sitting with such heavy topics!

If anyone has an up to date Tort grid they could send me I'd really appreciate it!

In the meantime, going off a grid 1 sitting off, I was going to cover the following topics;

1. Trespass/Nuisance/Rylands
2. Duty of Care
3. Causation/Remoteness
4. Ordinary Negligence
5. Vicarious Liability
6. Occupier's Liability
7. Trespass to the Person
8. Products Liability
9. Defamation
10. Damages/Quantum
11. Negligent Misstatement
12. Nervous Shock

Suggestions, edits? Take out anything, add in anything?

Maybe throw in Passing Off? Definitely one of the easier topics in my opinion and didn't come in the last two papers so I reckon it's due a run.

Professional Negligence is another one. Hasn't come up since Oct 16 so is probably due a run.

yournerd

Any predictions for contract?

yournerd

Any predictions for contract?

legalspeelman

For Constitutional law, in relation to the case note question, does anybody have any ideas of what cases should be focused on? Or are people not going to prepare for the question, and hope that cases they know come up in the question?

I have looked at DPP v Doyle and DPP v Gormley and White, but unsure what other cases to focus on.

Leraf

legalspeelman wrote: »

For Constitutional law, in relation to the case note question, does anybody have any ideas of what cases should be focused on? Or are people not going to prepare for the question, and hope that cases they know come up in the question?

I have looked at DPP v Doyle and DPP v Gormley and White, but unsure what other cases to focus on.

You should check past papers. A lot of the case notes are recurring.


You should read the Supreme Court book, its great for the case notes.


You will probably know one or two of the case notes just based on what you are studying in general, so dont worry too much about it.

holliek

Tips for equity? Or contract?

holliek

Can you print legislation off irishstatutebook.ie and bring that into the exam? Also can you just bring in the relevant sections rather than printing off an entire act?

Frances456

holliek wrote: »

Can you print legislation off irishstatutebook.ie and bring that into the exam? Also can you just bring in the relevant sections rather than printing off an entire act?

No you can't print the legislation yourself. You have to buy it.

TCPIP

What sort of answer length are people aiming for? I'm doing criminal questions at the moment and, in my view, hitting the answers perfectly with two pages for the ILAC method. I don't see a way to have longer ones with the time constraints either.

illy.m

TCPIP wrote: »

What sort of answer length are people aiming for? I'm doing criminal questions at the moment and, in my view, hitting the answers perfectly with two pages for the ILAC method. I don't see a way to have longer ones with the time constraints either.

From previous answers to this question, there is no exact number of pages required. If you have 2 pages of case law and legislation applicable to the question, you apply that to the question you can pass with 2 pages. You could have 5 pages of waffling on the topic and fail. It all depends on the quality of the content not the quantity.

holliek

Frances456 wrote: »

No you can't print the legislation yourself. You have to buy it.

What’s the actual difference? Does it come in a different format?

ArthurDayne

holliek wrote: »

Frances456 wrote: »

No you can't print the legislation yourself. You have to buy it.

What’s the actual difference? Does it come in a different format?

I guess potentially it's to do with people using PDF typing to weave notes in among the text of the legislation. It would be quite easy to do, so buying the approved published versions prevents this.

OMGWACA

Supermax1988 wrote: »

Maybe throw in Passing Off? Definitely one of the easier topics in my opinion and didn't come in the last two papers so I reckon it's due a run.

Professional Negligence is another one. Hasn't come up since Oct 16 so is probably due a run.

Thanks a mill! That's a solid 14 topics. Do you think I could afford to cut any of them out?

fe1exams2018

for anyone who has passed tort - would you say focusing on past questions is a good way to go? The course seems very broad but when you look back at questions it seems to be the same kind of answers over and over and half of the chapter seems irrelevant, worried about just learning from questions though

Supermax1988

OMGWACA wrote: »

Thanks a mill! That's a solid 14 topics. Do you think I could afford to cut any of them out?

I never like to advocate cutting anything out! But I would say you could perhaps spend less time on Nervous Shock and Damages than you could on other topics. They've both been flogged to death lately and the run has to stop some time.

But I wouldn't go into the exam without having some knowledge on both of them so that if you're badly stuck you could claw together a fifth answer.

randomrb

fe1exams2018 wrote: »

for anyone who has passed tort - would you say focusing on past questions is a good way to go? The course seems very broad but when you look back at questions it seems to be the same kind of answers over and over and half of the chapter seems irrelevant, worried about just learning from questions though

I used to go through the manual fully taking notes and then focus on the past questions. There are a great guide but you need to be prepared for a small twist to the question or an extra part to it so you can't rely solely on them

holliek

what are people's thought on leaving out examinership in company?

legalspeelman

Quick question for Constitutional law.

Q3 of the October 2016 exam

"Michael is 15 years old. He is convicted of theft. As a person under the age of 18, he is eligible to be considered for "educational detention" under the Sentencing of Minors Act 2016. This is a form of detention which involves the placing of minors in prisons but in a unit separate from the main population where there is greater access to training and other educational supports, and where the detainees are subject to less restrictions than those provided for by the Prison Rules. It is also a form of detention which is not treated in law as a criminal conviction.

The judge directs that Michael be subject to "educational detention" for a period of two years.

Rule 26(1) of the Prison Rules 2016 allows a prisoner to earn remission on a sentence of 25% "for good conduct, as judged by a prison governor". However, the Prison Rules 2016 are specified in their definition to apply only to "persons detained on foot of a criminal conviction".

Michael considers it unfair that he is not eligible to apply for remission. He asks for your advice as to whether there are any grounds of Irish Constitutional law upon which he can challenge this.

Advise Michael".

Does anybody know how to go about answering this question. Should you discuss the issue of principles and policies in relation to the discretion being left to the prison governor? Not sure how else to go about answering this Q

legalspeelman

holliek wrote: »

what are people's thought on leaving out examinership in company?

You should be fine leaving out examinership. It is a topic that comes up very infrequently, and recently appeared on the October 2017 paper I believe. You would definitely be better off focusing on Liquidation and Receivership, as neither of them came up in the March 2018 paper and they appear very frequently.

LawStudent2018

legalspeelman wrote: »

Quick question for Constitutional law.

Q3 of the October 2016 exam

"Michael is 15 years old. He is convicted of theft. As a person under the age of 18, he is eligible to be considered for "educational detention" under the Sentencing of Minors Act 2016. This is a form of detention which involves the placing of minors in prisons but in a unit separate from the main population where there is greater access to training and other educational supports, and where the detainees are subject to less restrictions than those provided for by the Prison Rules. It is also a form of detention which is not treated in law as a criminal conviction.

The judge directs that Michael be subject to "educational detention" for a period of two years.

Rule 26(1) of the Prison Rules 2016 allows a prisoner to earn remission on a sentence of 25% "for good conduct, as judged by a prison governor". However, the Prison Rules 2016 are specified in their definition to apply only to "persons detained on foot of a criminal conviction".

Michael considers it unfair that he is not eligible to apply for remission. He asks for your advice as to whether there are any grounds of Irish Constitutional law upon which he can challenge this.

Advise Michael".

Does anybody know how to go about answering this question. Should you discuss the issue of principles and policies in relation to the discretion being left to the prison governor? Not sure how else to go about answering this Q

I would focus more on the right to liberty and equality. I don't believe the non-delegation doctrine applies due to the fact that "prison rules" are not a legislative authority. That said, it could be argued that the provision contained therein, infringes upon the sentencing power of the judiciary.