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Kings Inns Application - wrong degree

  • 29-04-2011 02:02AM
    #1
    beeftotheheels
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    I'm looking at applying to Kings Inns next year. I would like to do the entrance exam route rather than the diploma in legal studies route since I think doing the diploma route would be a shameful waste of the four "L"s I am entitled to put after my name.

    However, my problem is as follows. A Queens graduate can do the entrance exam subject to passing the land law paper, but I, as a graduate of a school which ranks almost 50 places higher than Queens in the UK, cannot.

    When I spoke with someone today they referred my query to a colleague (on annual leave), and explained that if I have an issue I can appeal to the Educations Appeal Board. Which I clearly can not. The EAB deals with appeals from students, not from prospective students.

    Has any one any experience of Kings Inns allowing graduates of other UK universities do the entrance exam route subject only to the same Ts&Cs that are imposed on Queens graduates?

    From now to August strikes me as a reasonable time frame to buy a few text books and brush up on recent developments/ particularly Irish developments in Torts etc

    Having to engage in a battle to claim my rights relating to services availed of in other member states strikes me as not worth the effort.


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  • #2
    Milk & Honey
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    I have heard that some arrangement was put in place for graduates of the University of London.


  • #3
    234
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    The problem is that the Land Law of NI is substantially different to that of the UK. In some ways it's closer to the law here in Ireland which is very different from that in the UK. If you do get to sit the exam, get Wylie's 'Irish Land Law'; it's very comprehensive and up to date in that it deals with the huge changes made by the LCLRA 2009. I'm not sure but I think he drafted the act.


  • #4
    beeftotheheels
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    234 wrote: »
    If you do get to sit the exam, get Wylie's 'Irish Land Law'; it's very comprehensive and up to date in that it deals with the huge changes made by the LCLRA 2009. I'm not sure but I think he drafted the act.

    Any suggestions for other books? I would default to buying and reading everything on the reading list, but recommendations would help narrow it down.


  • #5
    234
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    beeftotheheels wrote: »
    Any suggestions for other books? I would default to buying and reading everything on the reading list, but recommendations would help narrow it down.
    Don't bother buying anything else unless it has been written since 2009. The 2009 Act made sweeping changes to almost every area of Iriah Land Law (it's over 200 pages). Wylie's book has all of this incorporated. Other books might be more useful for more discrete areas such as succession. If you do buy other books for certain areas (for instance I'm pretty sure you can get books written entirely on easements) just read Wylie first and be aware of any changes made. Often with land law issues if you aren't 100% right you are 100% wrong.
    Oh, and Wylie is pricy. I think it retails around 190 euro. If you look in university second hand book shops there just might be somebody who bought it at the start of this year and has already sold it. You could potentially pick it up for half the price.


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    beeftotheheels wrote: »
    Any suggestions for other books? I would default to buying and reading everything on the reading list, but recommendations would help narrow it down.
    234 wrote: »
    Don't bother buying anything else unless it has been written since 2009. The 2009 Act made sweeping changes to almost every area of Iriah Land Law (it's over 200 pages). Wylie's book has all of this incorporated. Other books might be more useful for more discrete areas such as succession. If you do buy other books for certain areas (for instance I'm pretty sure you can get books written entirely on easements) just read Wylie first and be aware of any changes made. Often with land law issues if you aren't 100% right you are 100% wrong.
    Oh, and Wylie is pricy. I think it retails around 190 euro. If you look in university second hand book shops there just might be somebody who bought it at the start of this year and has already sold it. You could potentially pick it up for half the price.

    Also, to be fair, as a general book on Irish Land Law you cannot find a text to match it.


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