FE1 Exam Thread (Read 1st post!) NOTICE: YOU MAY SWAP EXAM GRIDS

Tony_TwoLegs · 28-01-2018 04:09PM

Anyone have the breakdown of the October Constitutional exam?
:0)

Frances94 · 28-01-2018 07:58PM

Robbie25808 wrote:

I have not looked at the case notes yet either. What ones would you recommend covering and how long of an answer do you have to write for them?

Robbie25808 wrote:

Any tips on what to leave out for constitutional law? I was thinking of leaving out Emergency and War, International Law and the Constitution, Directive Principe's of Socio-Economic Policy. Anything else I could leave out?

I've just left out emergency and war and international law... Ive gone through the papers for the past couple of years and there isn't really much repetition with the case notes. I think I'm just going to pick a couple of important ones and move on ..

Mesutozil · 28-01-2018 11:29PM

Hi everyone,

I'm probably being thick but I just can't get my head round Corporate Borrowings for Company Law.

I'm confused about the relationship between debentures and mortgages on the one hand and fixed charges and floating charges on the other. Can mortgages and debentures be used to create fixed and floating charges or what?

Also, am I correct in saying that a mortgage is a type of fixed charge? If this is true then why does a mortgage create legal title but a fixed charge doesn't?

I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks!

cojamocork · 29-01-2018 09:53AM

Hanging for a Criminal grid if anyone has one? I have most of the others to swap.

sheep12 · 29-01-2018 06:39PM

Question 5 of October 2014 sets out a question on Equality under Article 40.1 of the Constitution
It provides a passage from the M.D(a minor) v Ireland (2012) case and then states 'do you think that the approach of the Supreme Court in MD (a minor) v Ireland as summarised in the extract above is too deferential? Does this provide an adequate level of protection for Constitutional rights? Explain your view.'

I know you must give your personal stance on the judgment but, does anyone have a general approach/structure to take when answering this question?

Tommybojangles · 29-01-2018 07:15PM

If anyone has a company exam grid or even an overview of what was on the October one I would be hugely appreciative, I think I must have thrown my exam paper out the window of the luas on the way back into town in a rage

:(:mad:

Plague Maiden · 29-01-2018 11:17PM

Could anybody tell me what topics came up for Tort in October 2017?

Thanks.

TemptationWaits · 31-01-2018 12:55PM

Plague Maiden wrote: »

Could anybody tell me what topics came up for Tort in October 2017?

Thanks.

October 2017 exam

Q1 was a problem about trespass to the person: assault, false imprisonment, emotional suffering. Also an element of trespass to land.

Q2 was an essay about pure economic loss.

Q3 was a problem about employer's liability.

Q4 was an essay about the secondary purpose of damages in tort law.

Q5 was a problem about nervous shock.

Q6 was a problem about Rylands v Fletcher.

Q7 was a problem about causation and remoteness.

Q8 was an essay about Part III of the civil liability act 1961.

Jcarroll07 · 02-02-2018 12:35AM

Lawhead767 wrote: »

I passed eu with plenty to spare last sitting and left out competition law which is huge topic. /Mod deletion. Pls do not discuss examiners here/, it turned out to be my best mark

I think EU last time round given it did not have any completion law or it was possible to get away without it made it a significantly easier exam the previous ones. Just what i thought from doing PP and then doing the real thing. It was IMO a dream paper if you were some what underprepared, dont see it being like that next time and looking back even though I got it I should have been and was foolish to to have been more prepared.

Robbie25808 · 03-02-2018 12:08PM

Constitutional Law:

Is the chapter on the Nation, the People and the State and Sovereignty important or could you skip this chapter?

Frances94 · 03-02-2018 03:55PM

Robbie25808 wrote:

Is the chapter on the Nation, the People and the State and Sovereignty important or could you skip this chapter?

Crotty and Pringle cases have come up a few times.

Marie92 · 03-02-2018 04:27PM

Only starting to study now and in a panic.

Can anyone let me know the essential topics to cover for tort please?

hullaballoo · 03-02-2018 04:38PM

Cover everything.

Don't spend ages worrying about the abstract concepts like causation and foreseeability etc. Just have the basics and a couple of cases. The examiner in tort mixes topics and if you don't cover everything, you will miss issues in questions and be unable to pass that question.

The FE1s are about testing broad knowledge in preparation for life as a solicitor where you can't stand over having missed an aspect of your client's case on the basis that you didn't have time to study that chapter.

Backfire31 · 03-02-2018 05:04PM

Anyone get confirmation from the Law Society of their application for the March sitting yet?

XxMCRxBabyxX · 03-02-2018 05:33PM

Backfire31 wrote: »

Anyone get confirmation from the Law Society of their application for the March sitting yet?

Nope. Not yet! Getting a little anxious about it!

annmc882 · 03-02-2018 05:34PM

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Nope. Not yet! Getting a little anxious about it!

I have but i had it sent in just after xmas

Smurf777 · 03-02-2018 10:43PM

Hi all.

Boards had been very beneficial for fe1 advice so decided to add to the discussion.

I've been out of the legal world for nearly 3 years. I took some time out to do something very different after my degree.

Back to it now, working full time in a law firm and studying for these exams.

Lots of my friends have been through it but I feel people in the thick of it will provide better support. I'm concentrating getting over the hurdle of this first sitting and passing three at the minute.

I've signed up for:

Criminal

Company

Property

I believe a broad knowledge of Criminal is needed. What can I whittle down at this point in Company and Property? I've started into company today and remembered how much I disliked it in college!!

Any general tips and advice would be much appreciated. To anyone out there in the same boat as myself best of luck.

P.s still waiting on confirmation from the Law Soc

Fonzie123 · 04-02-2018 02:05AM

The letters of confirmation usually come in the post a week before exams

TemptationWaits · 04-02-2018 07:31PM

I'm looking for exam grids for CONTRACT or CRIMINAL if anyone has them!

I can swap constitutional, tort, property, or EU.

N2547 · 05-02-2018 05:18PM

TemptationWaits wrote: »

I'm looking for exam grids for CONTRACT or CRIMINAL if anyone has them!

I can swap constitutional, tort, property, or EU.

Hey would you mind sending me on your constitutional grid? Thanking you. I've neither for contract or criminal

Robbie25808 · 06-02-2018 12:24PM

Constitutional Law:

Is there is a list of case notes that they can ask? Or does anybody have any recommendations on what ones to learn? I don't have a clue which ones they could ask.

Bigdreamer123 · 06-02-2018 02:04PM

Hi,
Wondering if anyone has the examiners report for EU and/or Equity for October 2017?
I would swap, but I have no updated things from last sitting.

Thanks!

XxMCRxBabyxX · 06-02-2018 02:42PM

Bigdreamer123 wrote: »

Hi,
Wondering if anyone has the examiners report for EU and/or Equity for October 2017?
I would swap, but I have no updated things from last sitting.

Thanks!

I'd also like the EU examiner's report if anyone happens to have it please!

Gunslinger92 · 06-02-2018 06:59PM

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

I'd also like the EU examiner's report if anyone happens to have it please!

Me too!

Leraf · 06-02-2018 07:30PM

Me also

yournerd · 06-02-2018 08:14PM

If anyone is looking for 2017 october papers and reports, its 12euro. If we had 6 people thats 2euro each?

Please send me a PM if youre interested.

MOD
Pls, apart from exchanging exam grids do not trade via this forum

lawless11 · 06-02-2018 10:58PM

Quick question, how long in advance are the dates released for the exams, for example for the October 2018 session, when can you sign up/see the dates on the registration form? Would it be something like May 2018 (or before/after)?

Fonzie123 · 06-02-2018 11:31PM

It will be released the day of March results, which should be May 4th. Normally 6 Fridays after last exam

Frances94 · 07-02-2018 12:01AM

Has anyone spotted any new and important constitutional law cases?

Lumi77 · 07-02-2018 09:59AM

the acknowledgment and receipt letters for exams were out in the post already.
the letters with the venue and examination numbers are out 3 weeks before the exams

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