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lawless11

sapphire309 wrote: »

Anybody still working full time and still have about half your notes left to make? Misery loves company

This gives me hope too! You are not alone.

Leraf

lawless11 wrote: »

This gives me hope too! You are not alone.

sapphire309 wrote: »

Anybody still working full time and still have about half your notes left to make? Misery loves company

Working full time and will do so until the exams . One thing I will say is that the night before some exams I knew not one case and cried, the next morning I crammed before the exam and I passed. On some exams I was writing notes the day before the exam and cramming information into my brain the morning before the exam.


Concentrate on understanding everything. You can cram case names in in little time before the exam.



Everyone wants to be organised and sleep well the night before the exam and know all they need to when they go in but trust me, everyone is in a panic right up until the moment they walk into that room and if anyone tells you they feel ready and prepared, I would guess they are the opposite.

lawlad101

Leraf wrote: »

Working full time and will do so until the exams . One thing I will say is that the night before some exams I knew not one case and cried, the next morning I crammed before the exam and I passed. On some exams I was writing notes the day before the exam and cramming information into my brain the morning before the exam.


Concentrate on understanding everything. You can cram case names in in little time before the exam.



Everyone wants to be organised and sleep well the night before the exam and know all they need to when they go in but trust me, everyone is in a panic right up until the moment they walk into that room and if anyone tells you they feel ready and prepared, I would guess they are the opposite.

Yeah that's the thing, it seems to be panic panic panic in the weeks before and then on the day it just sort of all comes together :pac:

z6vm1dobfnca3x

Leraf wrote: »

Concentrate on understanding everything.

Couldn't agree more. No point in learning hundreds of cases off by heart if you don't understand their relevance.

Remember, we need to be able to apply these cases...

I'm guilty of this myself so I always need to remind myself to understand things first. Once you understand the reasoning, it's 10x easier to memorise this stuff.

My guess is that it's more beneficial to know and understand 50% of the cases and be able to apply them effectively than it is to know hundreds of cases without knowing their relevance.

clearsky99

Does anyone have a tort grid that they wouldn’t mind sharing with me please?

scooby321

Does anyone have the Independent predicted topics for Constitutional by any chance? Running out of time so I'm going to try to focus on about 7/8 topics hopefully

holliek

bigtophat13 wrote: »

10 on the dot, mainly SCC

I don't have any, I can't see any in the manual

bigtophat13

holliek wrote: »

I don't have any, I can't see any in the manual

SCC

DPP v Pringle
DPP v Kavanagh
DPP v John Dundon
Gilligan v SCC
McElhineney v SCC

Court of Appeal:
Wayne Dundon case - DPP wanted harsher sentence. Didn't get it
DPP v Wall - called miscarriage of justice

Yohnathan

sapphire309 wrote: »

Anybody still working full time and still have about half your notes left to make? Misery loves company

Yes! I have to start Constitutional notes!

z6vm1dobfnca3x

With such a large number of topics to cover, are you guys studying two subjects per day? i.e. Criminal & Tort on a Monday, Equity & Property on the Tuesday, back to Criminal & Tort on the Wednesday etc.?

lawless11

In relation to unconstitutionally obtained evidence, my manual has 'Casual' link - is it correct or is it supposed to be 'Causal' link? Thanks.

jamesob123

Hi folks - am I right in saying that we cannot bring in any legislation into the Tort exam?

I'm fairly certain that's the case

Supermax1988

lawless11 wrote: »

In relation to unconstitutionally obtained evidence, my manual has 'Casual' link - is it correct or is it supposed to be 'Causal' link? Thanks.

Should be Causal

jamesob123 wrote: »

Hi folks - am I right in saying that we cannot bring in any legislation into the Tort exam?

I'm fairly certain that's the case

Yep, no legislation for Tort.

Fe1hayes

What are people doing for contract? I have written notes and rewriting them now always how I learn but overwhelmed by the amount of cases also in her reports she sounds like a very tough maker! Any tips welcomed.
Also if anyone has guidance in what they are doing for EU would be great too.

Kallyann1

Does anybody have any predictions for Constitutional? It is very big and overwhelming! going to try cut down.

frankiejoepat

When will the results for this sitting be released?

Leraf

frankiejoepat wrote: »

When will the results for this sitting be released?

Usually 6 weeks after the last Friday of the exams.

I would estimate that to be the 3rd May but am open to correction

mariealice

Could anyone tell me what came up in Contract & EU in October please?

iamanengine

So my notes are almost all done. My plan is to hopefully start learning off on Monday. I'm doing Tort, Criminal, Property and Contract.

There is a 7 day gap between my 3rd and 4th exam, 4th exam being contract. Do people think it would be relatively safe to pretty much ignore Contract until that 7 day gap and cram it all then?

lawless11

iamanengine wrote: »

So my notes are almost all done. My plan is to hopefully start learning off on Monday. I'm doing Tort, Criminal, Property and Contract.

There is a 7 day gap between my 3rd and 4th exam, 4th exam being contract. Do people think it would be relatively safe to pretty much ignore Contract until that 7 day gap and cram it all then?

I think you should be good to ignore it, yep. 7 days is plenty.

jamesob123

Supermax1988 wrote: »

Should be Causal



Yep, no legislation for Tort.

Thanks </3

nimcdona

For easments does anyone know If the reform under 2009 act has come into effect? In my manual it says it has but then I've read in other notes its was delayed until December 2021

Its probably not too significant, just don't want to be penalised for saying the wrong thing

bigtophat13

nimcdona wrote: »

For easments does anyone know If the reform under 2009 act has come into effect? In my manual it says it has but then I've read in other notes its was delayed until December 2021

Its probably not too significant, just don't want to be penalised for saying the wrong thing

I've only started property today since christmas but that's ringing a bell in relation to easements by prescription I think? Someone else will know better however.

nimcdona

bigtophat13 wrote: »

I've only started property today since christmas but that's ringing a bell in relation to easements by prescription I think? Someone else will know better however.

No problem, yep its in relation to prescriptions.

Just don't know whether in a problem question I should be advising the client in relation to the traditional ways of acquiring prescriptions or the new ways under 2009 act if you get me, because if its not in effect until 2021 I presume you can't really apply it in regard to advice but I don't know really know tbh haha

iamanengine

nimcdona wrote: »

No problem, yep its in relation to prescriptions.

Just don't know whether in a problem question I should be advising the client in relation to the traditional ways of acquiring prescriptions or the new ways under 2009 act if you get me, because if its not in effect until 2021 I presume you can't really apply it in regard to advice but I don't know really know tbh haha

I'm just kind of figuring this our for myself at the moment, so this is my understanding of it:

The idea is that for the LCLRA rules to apply the 12 year period has to run from 1 December 2009 onwards. So say for example the easement started on 1 January 2010 to 1 January 2022, that's fine, 12 year period ran, all good.

But if the easement started to run on 1 January 2005 to 1 January 2017, the Court won't grant an easement under the 2009 Act as the user period started before the 2009 Act was enacted.

So this created a period from 1 December 2009 to 1 December 2021 where there would be no method of prescription available.

S.38 of the Civil Law Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2011 was enacted to allow the old prescription laws to be used until 1 December 2021. So you can have 12 years user from 2009 on, or 20 years (old rules) if the user period ends between 2009 and 2021.

Hope that makes sense...

nimcdona

iamanengine wrote: »

I'm just kind of figuring this our for myself at the moment, so this is my understanding of it:

The idea is that for the LCLRA rules to apply the 12 year period has to run from 1 December 2009 onwards. So say for example the easement started on 1 January 2010 to 1 January 2022, that's fine, 12 year period ran, all good.

But if the easement started to run on 1 January 2005 to 1 January 2017, the Court won't grant an easement under the 2009 Act as the user period started before the 2009 Act was enacted.

So this created a period from 1 December 2009 to 1 December 2021 where there would be no method of prescription available.

S.38 of the Civil Law Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2011 was enacted to allow the old prescription laws to be used until 1 December 2021. So you can have 12 years user from 2009 on, or 20 years (old rules) if the user period ends between 2009 and 2021.

Hope that makes sense...

Thank you so so much, that's cleared it up for me perfectly.

Appreciate it

kasey0123

Trying to minimise the amount of topics for contract, company and Constitutional.

Does anyone have predictions for the above?
Planning on doing SLP, 2014 changes, shareholder protection, directors, restriction and disqual, liquidation, borrowing, examinership, duties arising in insolvency, SAP.

Constitucional: SEP of powers. Interpretation, property rights, equality, family, JR + Unconstitutionally, amending Constitution, freedom of expression.

Contract : offer and A, consideration, misrep, damages, consumer protection, discharge of contracts, exclusion clauses, warranties etc

holliek

kasey0123 wrote: »

Trying to minimise the amount of topics for contract, company and Constitutional.

Does anyone have predictions for the above?
Planning on doing SLP, 2014 changes, shareholder protection, directors, restriction and disqual, liquidation, borrowing, examinership, duties arising in insolvency, SAP.

Constitucional: SEP of powers. Interpretation, property rights, equality, family, JR + Unconstitutionally, amending Constitution, freedom of expression.

Contract : offer and A, consideration, misrep, damages, consumer protection, discharge of contracts, exclusion clauses, warranties etc

I'd second any predictions too! What have the colleges said?

clearsky99

Really desperate for a tort grid that’s up to date if anyone has it and is willing to share please?

bigtophat13

Am I correct in my understanding that the Registry of Deeds was the office where coveyances and deeds in relation to property were registered and serialised in order to give priority and that the Land Registry was where land would become registered as opposed to the deeds? The latter giving rise to a folio which gives the details of charges and burdens etc. with the exception of S72 burdens and that? Both now have been absorbed and the new law is that any new transaction of land needs to result in the land being registered?


Also, is it so that the Registry of Deed's isn't defunct, they just deal with deeds and still serialise them. So if I buy a house, I send the deed of conveyance to the Registry of deeds, and how does the folio get changed? Is that enough to do it or is it another process?