Subjects · Law
§ Law
Cases, statutes and problem questions, organised the way lawyers think.
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The toolkit
- Decision treesAvailable
Nineteen step-by-step routes through common problems, from offer and acceptance to homicide, judicial review and registered land, each ending in the leading authorities.
- Problem question plannerAvailable
IRAC or ILAC structure: identify the issue, state the rule, apply it, conclude, with suggested issues and authorities for each area.
- OSCOLA citation builderAvailable
Footnotes, short forms and tables to the 5th edition (2026): cases, legislation, books, articles, websites, newspapers, theses, command papers and AI output.
- Legal worksheetsAvailable
Fifty-eight templates, checklists, tables and references: case briefs, statutes, problem questions, essays and every core subject, with tests and authorities in the prompts.
- Damages calculatorAvailable
Contributory negligence reductions, contribution between defendants, contract damages and the sale of goods market rule, with the law beside the numbers.
- Court hierarchy and precedent mapAvailable
Which courts bind which, and how precedent works.
- Research toolsAvailable
A Boolean search builder for legal databases and a dissertation question tester.
- Exam and word plannerAvailable
Exam time shared out by marks, word budgets for essays and dissertations, and a chronology sorter for problem facts.
- Case briefsAvailable
Facts, issue, decision, ratio decidendi and obiter dicta, with the court and citation.
- SQE knowledge mapAvailable
Link your notes to the SQE Functioning Legal Knowledge areas.
- Statute trackerPlanned
Acts and sections you rely on, linked to the cases that interpret them.
Skills you build
- Reading and briefing judgments
- Statutory interpretation
- Applying law to facts (problem questions)
- Legal research with case databases
- Oral advocacy and mooting
How you are assessed
- Problem questions
- Essays
- Unseen exams
- Moots
- Dissertation
Referencing: usually OSCOLA. Your department's handbook has the final word.
Learn: 288 teaching pages
Law has 288 teaching pages, a full course, topic by topic. Each page has a plain-English explanation with the key idea in a box, figures and worked examples where they help, check-your-understanding questions with model answers, and a reference list.
- Business Organisations: Overview
- Sole Traders, Partnerships and LLPs
- Incorporation and Separate Personality
- Corporate Constitution and Authority
- Directors' Duties
- Shareholders and Decision-Making
- Minority Shareholder Protection
- Company Finance: Debt and Equity
- Commercial Sales and Consumer Law
- Agency Law
- Insolvency: Overview
- Business Taxation: Overview
and 276 more.
Key cases and terms
288 teaching pages with figures and self-test questions, plus a starter map of 104 topics in 14 areas, with 65 key terms, 26 judges and jurists and 55 key cases that students can add to their notes in one click. Written for Degree Margins and checked against current sources.
The legal system and legal method
Sources of law · Parliament and the making of legislation · Delegated legislation · The courts and the judiciary · Judicial precedent · Statutory interpretation · The legal professions and the SQE · Tribunals and alternative dispute resolution · Access to justice and legal aid
Contract
Offer and acceptance · Consideration and promissory estoppel · Intention and certainty · Express and implied terms · Exclusion clauses and statutory control · Misrepresentation · Mistake, duress and undue influence · Privity and third party rights · Discharge: performance, breach and frustration · Remedies
Tort
Duty of care · Breach of duty · Causation and remoteness · Psychiatric harm · Pure economic loss · Occupiers' liability · Nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher · Vicarious liability · Defamation and privacy · Defences and remedies
Criminal law
Actus reus, omissions and causation · Mens rea: intention and recklessness · Strict liability · Murder · Voluntary manslaughter: loss of control and diminished responsibility · Involuntary manslaughter · Non-fatal offences against the person · Sexual offences · Theft, robbery and burglary · Fraud · General defences · Inchoate offences and accessories
Constitutional and administrative law
Sources of the UK constitution · Parliamentary sovereignty · The rule of law · Separation of powers · The royal prerogative · Constitutional conventions · Devolution · Judicial review: procedure and grounds · Remedies in public law
Human rights
The European Convention on Human Rights · The Human Rights Act 1998 · Absolute, limited and qualified rights · Proportionality · Liberty and fair trial · Privacy, expression and protest
Land law
Estates and interests in land · Registered land and overriding interests · Co-ownership and trusts of land · Leases and licences · Easements · Freehold covenants · Mortgages · Adverse possession
Equity and trusts
The nature of equity and its maxims · The three certainties · Formalities and constitution of trusts · Charitable and purpose trusts · Resulting and constructive trusts · Trustees' duties and powers · Breach of trust and remedies · Tracing
Business and commercial law
Sole traders, partnerships and LLPs · Companies, constitutions and directors · Shareholders and minority protection · Company finance and insolvency · Commercial contracts, agency and consumer sales · Business tax, financial services and financial crime
Employment law
Employment status and the contract · Wages, hours and family rights · Unfair dismissal and redundancy · Discrimination at work · Trade unions and tribunals
Family law
Marriage, civil partnership and status · Divorce and financial remedies · Children: parental responsibility and private law · Public children law · Domestic abuse and protection · Child support
Evidence
Relevance and admissibility · Hearsay and bad character · Privilege and vulnerable witnesses
EU and international law
EU institutions and sources of EU law · Direct effect and supremacy · State liability · Brexit and retained (assimilated) EU law · Public international law and treaties
Legal skills and jurisprudence
Reading and briefing cases · Answering problem questions · Writing legal essays · OSCOLA referencing · Legal research databases · Theories of law: natural law and positivism · Mooting and advocacy
Accreditation and professional routes
- Solicitors: the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE1 and SQE2) is taken after any degree; many LLBs map teaching to the SQE Functioning Legal Knowledge assessments
- Barristers: the Bar Standards Board recognises a qualifying law degree for the academic component of Bar training
Our teaching pages and tools are a study guide to support your degree, not a replacement for your lectures, seminars, reading or university materials. We take great care over accuracy, but where anything differs from what your course teaches, follow your course.