nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

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

Tom Young

This is the new FE1 Exam Thread

This is a link to the old one: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055143169

This is a link to the next one: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056907164

Sorry, I'm aware we are in the throws of FE1 season, but due to a server issue, a new thread was required. Old chats and posts below - Thanks!

Mod warning in post #1205: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88514663&postcount=1205

Mod warning in post #2555: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=91819622&postcount=2555

Mod warning in post #2593: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92025688&postcount=2593

Moderator: The above warnings mean it is not ok to buy, sell or swap (trade) any exam materials in this thread. Exam grids are the only exception. You may request and exchange exam grids but at no point will money be allowed to change hands for them.

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

nmurphy1441

iamanengine wrote: »

No real predictions, just cover the usual suspects -

Institutions
Direct Effect/MS Liability
General Principles
Citizenship
Goods
Workers
Judicial Review
Competition

I’m hoping for a nice set of case notes but not banking on them

IgoPAP

Wonderstruck wrote: »

That's pretty amazing three sittings before you graduate!!! I began them 2 years after graduating!

Thanks! Although it wouldn't be too amazing if it turned that I could get rejected because I already did 3 sittings with only a few subjects each.

Hamerzan Sickles

iamanengine wrote: »

Lol, I just checked insta and seen the video

Think she is so wrong, this thread has been a massive help to me personally and to suggest people intentionally put up incorrect information is really unfair. I always do my best to help others and feel I've been treated similarly. It's a nice community on here and people genuinely look out for each other, in my experience.

Y'all are great x

For what it's worth, I've passed like three exams basing my revision the night before the exam solely on iamanengine's predictions so boards has been a pretty massive help to me.

I think the person we are referencing about might be trying to do a bit of inverse marketing by deterring people from browsing here for information. :rolleyes:

Wonderstruck

Hamerzan Sickles wrote: »

For what it's worth, I've passed like three exams basing my revision the night before the exam solely on iamanengine's predictions so boards has been a pretty massive help to me.

I think the person we are referencing about might be trying to do a bit of inverse marketing by deterring people from browsing here for information. :rolleyes:

Yeah like obviously none of us are lecturers, we are only saying what we know. I remember I didn't know an 18 year old could witness a will qnd I was like no way (still makes 0 sense to me they can - sorry guys). >.<;

I have honestly seen your questions here, and while studying another subject, got the textbook off the library shelf and checked the answers. I do it in the hope that they'll be some good karma for me in the future. I've literally passed all 8 and I'm still chilling here. I've definitely met people IRL who would rip pages out of law books to sabotage others but I post here in good faith none of you guys would do that. I was gonna say we should meet for pints / non alcoholic substitutions again but then I was like oh wait..........

JCormac

Healyjhow wrote: »

Don’t even want to post mortem that paper I really feeling I was grasping at straws ... all my case law knowledge just disintegrated and got stuck with two essay questions I couldn’t even re read cause I had the fear of my life hahahah anyone want to share what their studying for EU so I can attempt to redeem myself ?

Exactly the same. Was reciting every case and statute perfectly before the exam, pure Rainman style.

In the exam I think I remembered a sixth of what I studied. Be lucky if I was scraping 5 cases a question. Just the luck of the draw on the day I guess.

Lots of people are probably in the same boat, so wouldn't stress too much.

Hoping for questions in the follow areas:

General Principles (Essay)
Direct effect & Member State liability
Judicial Review (Essay)
FMG (Art 34 or Art 30 & 110)
FMW (and maybe Citizenship)

lawgrad49

JCormac wrote: »

Exactly the same. Was reciting every case and statute perfectly before the exam, pure Rainman style.

In the exam I think I remembered a sixth of what I studied. Be lucky if I was scraping 5 cases a question. Just the luck of the draw on the day I guess.

Lots of people are probably in the same boat, so wouldn't stress too much.

Hoping for questions in the follow areas:

General Principles (Essay)
Direct effect & Member State liability
Judicial Review (Essay)
FMG (Art 34 or Art 30 & 110)
FMW (and maybe Citizenship)

Same here, was very happy with what I'd covered going in (think I counted I had 20 topics in total and could rhyme off relevant case law) but a few of them problem questions just threw me! Found myself rushing and waffling through answers because I spent so long trying to work out what the question was asking for. Ah well, it's all a learning experience!

I think EU will be more straightforward in terms of identifying the questions anyway. Hoping for similar topics myself!

hullaballoo

Firstly, congrats to all who sat Tort today and I advise against post mortems generally but particularly if you don't feel great about the exam. Tort is one of those areas where there are many right answers as well as many wrong ones and is notoriously difficult. I think the examiners reports pretty much always say that the majority of candidates do not correctly identify all issues/torts. That doesn't mean a fail on its own so you can miss things and still pass. Of course you can sure if it were any other way there'd be no passes tbh.

Just to set the record straight on the "call out" -

I read this thread daily and have done all my professional life (BL with 10+ PQE) and I do so partially to ensure the quality of advice/guidance/legal discussion is up to scratch. Other lawyers on the forum do too. I don't think I have ever noticed anyone trying to lead others astray.

But if it did happen, it would be "called out" straight away - that's how this site/internet discussions work. The best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post something incorrect!

Aoibhin511

Am i right in saying that preliminary reference and infringement procedure has never come up under this examiner?

iamanengine

Aoibhin511 wrote: »

Am i right in saying that preliminary reference and infringement procedure has never come up under this examiner?

Prelim reference came up in March 2019, that's the only time. Infringement hasn't I don't think. Supremacy hasn't either

Aoibhin511

iamanengine wrote: »

Prelim reference came up in March 2019, that's the only time. Infringement hasn't I don't think. Supremacy hasn't either

Ah completely missed that, thank you!

htnor

iamanengine wrote: »

Prelim reference came up in March 2019, that's the only time. Infringement hasn't I don't think. Supremacy hasn't either

What q was prelim reference in March 2019? Must be losing it just can’t seem to see it ðŸ˜‚

iamanengine

htnor wrote: »

What q was prelim reference in March 2019? Must be losing it just can’t seem to see it &#55357;&#56834;

I don't actually have access to the paper itself but my grid says Q3

sunnylegal

Would anyone mind sending me ANY of the last 6 years of exam papers for EU ? My notes only go to 2013 - I know last minute AF, I'm really stuck. Even just one hahaha

Thanks a mil.

Aoibhin511

iamanengine wrote: »

I don't actually have access to the paper itself but my grid says Q3

Hmm I would say q3 was just about standing am i missing something??

QUESTION THREE March 19

When Advocate General Jacobs stated in paragraph 103 of his own Opinion on Case C-50/2000, UPA v Council, that:
“[…] and individual should be regarded as individually concerned within the meaning of the fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC by a Community measure where, by reason of his particular circumstances, the measure has, or is liable to have, a substantial adverse effect on his interests”
he was clearly articulating that there was a lack of effective judicial protection for non-privileged applicants who sought a judicial review of acts of the European Union’s institutions.
Explain briefly the concerns that Advocate General was addressing here. Also, make an assessment of whether these concerns have been fully addressed by the changes that were made to Article 230 EC by the Lisbon Treaty and now contained in Article 263 TFEU and/or any developments that may have come from the related case law of the Union Judicature on this matter, and in particular the case-law interpreting the new post-Lisbon fourth paragraph to Article 263 TFEU.

Aoibhin511

sunnylegal wrote: »

Would anyone mind sending me ANY of the last 6 years of exam papers for EU ? My notes only go to 2013 - I know last minute AF, I'm really stuck. Even just one hahaha

Thanks a mil.

Yeah dm me your email

sunnylegal

Aoibhin511 wrote: »

Yeah dm me your email

Thank you SO SO much, I really appreciate it.

iamanengine

Aoibhin511 wrote: »

Hmm I would say q3 was just about standing am i missing something??

QUESTION THREE March 19

When Advocate General Jacobs stated in paragraph 103 of his own Opinion on Case C-50/2000, UPA v Council, that:
“[…] and individual should be regarded as individually concerned within the meaning of the fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC by a Community measure where, by reason of his particular circumstances, the measure has, or is liable to have, a substantial adverse effect on his interests”
he was clearly articulating that there was a lack of effective judicial protection for non-privileged applicants who sought a judicial review of acts of the European Union’s institutions.
Explain briefly the concerns that Advocate General was addressing here. Also, make an assessment of whether these concerns have been fully addressed by the changes that were made to Article 230 EC by the Lisbon Treaty and now contained in Article 263 TFEU and/or any developments that may have come from the related case law of the Union Judicature on this matter, and in particular the case-law interpreting the new post-Lisbon fourth paragraph to Article 263 TFEU.

Yep that seems pretty clearly to be about judicial review to me. So it seems you can't trust sample answers or grids these days :rolleyes:

htnor

Aoibhin511 wrote: »

Hmm I would say q3 was just about standing am i missing something??

QUESTION THREE March 19

When Advocate General Jacobs stated in paragraph 103 of his own Opinion on Case C-50/2000, UPA v Council, that:
“[…] and individual should be regarded as individually concerned within the meaning of the fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC by a Community measure where, by reason of his particular circumstances, the measure has, or is liable to have, a substantial adverse effect on his interests”
he was clearly articulating that there was a lack of effective judicial protection for non-privileged applicants who sought a judicial review of acts of the European Union’s institutions.
Explain briefly the concerns that Advocate General was addressing here. Also, make an assessment of whether these concerns have been fully addressed by the changes that were made to Article 230 EC by the Lisbon Treaty and now contained in Article 263 TFEU and/or any developments that may have come from the related case law of the Union Judicature on this matter, and in particular the case-law interpreting the new post-Lisbon fourth paragraph to Article 263 TFEU.

Yeah you’re right Q3 according to examiner report was on Art 263 and effective judicial protection and locus standi.

I was getting freaked there thinking my grid was wrong and as prelim reference hasn’t come up in years! I feel like it’s one of the most notable EU topics tho I don’t get why it’s not more of a popular q.

iamanengine

Apologies guys!!

I wouldn't want to be seen as intentionally giving out incorrect information...

JCormac

Does anybody have a condensed summary/notes on the changes Lisbon has made to Institutions that are crammable?

I don't have a whole lot on EU that I can swap but can swap what I have & will owe you a pint our paths cross in Blackhall

DFMCD190384

JCormac wrote: »

Does anybody have a condensed summary/notes on the changes Lisbon has made to Institutions that are crammable?

I don't have a whole lot on EU that I can swap but can swap what I have & will owe you a pint our paths cross in Blackhall

I would love these also....please

Healyjhow

When looking at direct effect problem questions .... is indirect effect only to be addressed with failure to correctly transpose the directive ? Direct effect would only need to be addressed if it was just failure to implement on time?

Hamerzan Sickles

I've been studying for EU for weeks and I feel like I know absolutely nothing. Tomorrow is going to be a long day.

Hamerzan Sickles

JCormac wrote: »

Does anybody have a condensed summary/notes on the changes Lisbon has made to Institutions that are crammable?

I don't have a whole lot on EU that I can swap but can swap what I have & will owe you a pint our paths cross in Blackhall

? I think that Lisbon literally implemented the TEU and the TFEU so on a technicality anything that is found in either of those in relation to Lisbon is a change made to the Institutions.

yipyop

Hey, does anyone have anything on 'equivalence' and 'practical possibility' or how to go about answering that question? March 2017 Q2. My notes don't include those as part of general principles.

Have a few useful bits on the whole course if anyone needs them, thanks.

iamanengine

JCormac wrote: »

Does anybody have a condensed summary/notes on the changes Lisbon has made to Institutions that are crammable?

I don't have a whole lot on EU that I can swap but can swap what I have & will owe you a pint our paths cross in Blackhall

Main changes - QMV, Charter of fundamental rights, ordinary legislative procedure, increased role of ms parliaments, introduced new test for regulatory acts re judicial review, introduced procedure to leave the EU

I don’t have any specific notes for Lisbon more they are spread out over various topics

Trainee1986

Hi everyone, posting this again for anyone else interested before review of applications in the coming weeks. My firm - an established criminal and personal injuries firm located in Dublin 1 - is looking to give an extended internship (at least 6 months) starting September/Oct 2020. This would suit a bright graduate interested in gaining daily court experience and advocacy skills (firm works in all courts from District up to Supreme). This is a hands-on role. Review of applications will begin on 17th August.

Send me a message for more details.

DUMSURFER

Does anyone have 'Free Movement of Workers' notes for EU that I could beg for?

Can send any and all other notes, sample answers etc to the unbelievably kind people who help out!

iamanengine

When was the last time equivalence and effectiveness came up? I realllllly don't want to cover it

Aoibhin511

iamanengine wrote: »

When was the last time equivalence and effectiveness came up? I realllllly don't want to cover it

October 19 and March 17