A2 wjec law -LA3+LA4 15th june+25th June 2012

Oooooh I see! Well thats annoying and I hate this AS element to the exam, it really gets to me

anyone got a brief outline of how to structure a police powers essay?

I think we may be doing different papers! I'm doing la3 option 2- criminal law, never done national security !! I know, Same

Start off with Criminal Appeals Act 1995, then describe the appeal from Mags - Crown - QBD (with possible Supreme Court and ECJ on points of law/ points of EU law) and then Crown- CoA Criminal Division - Supreme Court (on point of law).

Don't forget to describe both the pros and def routes and what goes on during the appeals! They could ask you on either appeal route or both, so be prepared for that too.

Don't worry about the length, my answer written up was only a page and a bit. My crown court answer was 2 paragraphs long and got 11 marks! Hope this helps

What part of police powers? Stop and search? Questioning and treatment?

both?

I know same ! Tbh I haven't looked much over my as stuff, I'm so unprepared, can't remember cases and dates etc ! Haven't even concentrated on past papers and questions yet aahhhh !!!

I know this is a stupid thing to ask, but if the question is about the role of the juries, would you just say everything about how they are selected and so on? because you can't use advs and disadvs..

Yeah, you'd talk about Juries Act 1976, what cases they're used in and how they help e.g. criminal to decide guilty or not guilty verdict, some civil cases to award damages with a verdict of for or against claimant. Also include the ratio of the verdict e.g. 12 = unanimous, 11-1 or 10-2 is majority and 51% if a civil jury.

Mention the selection process and criteria e.g electoral role, jury vetting (I think) and when people can be discharged from jury service e.g. armed forces.

Oh and put in some cases like R v Wang and Bushels Case and how it dates back to the Magna Carta? I think there's more points but that's all I can get from the top of my head sorry. I hope this helps!

For the AS work, are you just going to revise a couple of cases where relevant in each topic? It must be too much to remember LA3 cases and also all of the AS Cases.

Also, will the b part questions be related in some way to part a or can they literally ask anything???

They will be partly related.
POssible b questions:

police powers
police bail
cps
jury/judge
legal aid
appeals
rule of law

Are they allowed to pretty much ask anything however?

Ok, I know they havent done before but I just hope boring parts like Common Law, Equity, How to become a Barrister etc doesnt come up.