Law Students - Chat Thread

Original post by jjarvis

The aspects of obligations course at Cambridge teaches it. There's also a course Gerrard mcmeel at Bristol teaches which covers it.

Aspects of Obligations looks really interesting. Sadly we don't get anywhere near that kind of level of detail at BPP :frown:

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Tortious

Original post by roh

Don't you want to go to the Bar? In which case maybe you have to self flagellate? Possibly referred to as 50 Shades of Gray's? :tongue:

I look forward to my bailment beating too :judge:

PRSOM.

(I thought nulli was a partner - if that's the case, I imagine him lazily whacking a trainee pinata whilst he has his feet up on his desk. "Beating" is far too strenuous an activity, unless that's the entertainment at this year's Christmas party...)

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roh

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Original post by Tortious

PRSOM.

(I thought nulli was a partner - if that's the case, I imagine him lazily whacking a trainee pinata whilst he has his feet up on his desk. "Beating" is far too strenuous an activity, unless that's the entertainment at this year's Christmas party...)

I hope so. Or just commanding an associate to do the hard physical stuff then supervising with his feet up. Outstanding leadership is all about delegation.

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username877577

Original post by L'Evil Fish

Thanks

There you go then! Pick law as well if you want :wink:

My Username is really Poisson Distribution :mmm:

Thanks

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username877577

Original post by Tortious

Law A Level is fine as a fourth and even as a third if accompanied by two traditional subjects. Here. :smile:

Thank you!

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roh

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Original post by Shanij

I'm considering law, what alevels did you all do?

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French, Spanish and History (Modern). AS English. :smile:

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nulli tertius

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Original post by Forum User

I suppose my attempted solution would be: A person has title to sue for conversion if and only if he had, at the time of the conversion, either actual possession or the immediate right to possess the property concerned.

And that is why it becomes ultimately a matter of definition, because what is the special property? At the bottom it is the right to possess the goods.

At the end of the 19th century there was a similar argument over whether the English concept of seisin was equivalent to the Roman concept of possession.

If one asks the question why do we distinguish possession, it is because we want a stripped down version of ownership without the fancy bits. It is like modelling the universe by Newton and not Einstein or Planck. It is good enough for most purposes.

However, once we look too closely we have Schroedinger's cat. Either possession is what we observe about the physical world ("a fact") or or it is a matter derived from rules ("a law") and it cannot be both at the same time.

Lawyers assert that possession is a fact and ownership a matter of right but is the labourer in possession of the JCB or the builder sitting in his office 20 miles away? We, as lawyers, say the builder is in possession, but that is because as a matter of law we say that the labourer's possession is that of his employer. Yet that is nonsense to anyone watching the labourer at work.

But if that JCB is on finance we don't, as lawyers, say that possession is in the finance company even if the payments are in arrear and the finance house is entitled to re-possess it.

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Original post by roh

Don't you want to go to the Bar? In which case maybe you have to self flagellate? Possibly referred to as 50 Shades of Gray's? :tongue:

I look forward to my bailment beating too :judge:

I'm pretty sure I'd need someone else to beat it into me :tongue:

. I'm trying to beat 'duty of care' into myself, but I keep going on here procrastinating!

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nulli tertius

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Original post by roh

Don't you want to go to the Bar? In which case maybe you have to self flagellate? Possibly referred to as 50 Shades of Gray's? :tongue:

I look forward to my bailment beating too :judge:

You know the rhyme:

Inner for the rich man, Middle for the poor, Lincoln's for the scholar, and Gray's for the whore.

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lyrical_lie

Original post by zaliack

I'm pretty sure I'd need someone else to beat it into me :tongue:

. I'm trying to beat 'duty of care' into myself, but I keep going on here procrastinating!

Me too! I'm just so bored and I'm trying to do tutorial work on areas we haven't covered yet and it's just not happening!

Meh

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Original post by nulli tertius

But if that JCB is on finance we don't, as lawyers, say that possession is in the finance company even if the payments are in arrear and the finance house is entitled to re-possess it.

Isn't that slightly different? The right to re-possess is (I'm guessing) a mere equity which when validly exercised gives a right to possess, as well as the ownership which the finance house already had. The finance house couldn't sue in conversion unless they had already exercised the former right at the time of the interference with the goods, they could only sue for the damage caused to their reversionary interest.

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Original post by zaliack

I'm pretty sure I'd need someone else to beat it into me :tongue:

. I'm trying to beat 'duty of care' into myself, but I keep going on here procrastinating!

Original post by lyrical_lie

Me too! I'm just so bored and I'm trying to do tutorial work on areas we haven't covered yet and it's just not happening!

Meh

I should really be doing my essay on loss of self-control in criminal law, but it's too boring :smile:

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Original post by nulli tertius

You know the rhyme:

Inner for the rich man, Middle for the poor, Lincoln's for the scholar, and Gray's for the whore.

Hey! You can't call us whores. We're more like escorts with our prices :colone:

Original post by lyrical_lie

Me too! I'm just so bored and I'm trying to do tutorial work on areas we haven't covered yet and it's just not happening!

Meh

Original post by Forum User

I should really be doing my essay on loss of self-control in criminal law, but it's too boring :smile:

I've got about 400 pages to get through by next Thursday, and I've only gotten through 20 in the past three days :frown:

. I think I'm just going to have to blag through equity & trusts, and public international, just so that I can get through the tort & admin law work. Being a law student sucks.

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lyrical_lie

Original post by Forum User

I should really be doing my essay on loss of self-control in criminal law, but it's too boring :smile:

Fun, well I'm doing IPL it's so boring! Eek! And I have 3 hours of it tomorrow. In a row. :cry2:

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Original post by zaliack

I've got about 400 pages to get through by next Thursday, and I've only gotten through 20 in the past three days :frown:

. I think I'm just going to have to blag through equity & trusts, and public international, just so that I can get through the tort & admin law work. Being a law student sucks.

I would have thought it better to get through the equity and trusts and blag through the tort through judicious use of the word 'reasonable'.

Is there a duty of care here? blah blah fair just and reasonable.
What is the standard of care? blah blah reasonable man.
Is the damage too remote? blah blah reasonably foreseeable.

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Original post by Forum User

I would have thought it better to get through the equity and trusts and blag through the tort through judicious use of the word 'reasonable'.

Is there a duty of care here? blah blah fair just and reasonable.
What is the standard of care? blah blah reasonable man.
Is the damage too remote? blah blah reasonably foreseeable.

Wish I could, but my moot is based on duty of care, so I need to use this time to get into the grit of it. Although, from what I've learned, I'm going to be arguing policy rather than law :fuhrer:

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Original post by zaliack

Wish I could, but my moot is based on duty of care, so I need to use this time to get into the grit of it. Although, from what I've learned, I'm going to be arguing policy rather than law :fuhrer:

And what is your policy argument? That it is/is not fair, just and reasonable for their to be a duty in whatever the circumstances are :smile:

Easily blaggable !

Though I'm mostly kidding of course, not trying to make you skip your reading :smile:

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lyrical_lie

Original post by zaliack

Hey! You can't call us whores. We're more like escorts with our prices :colone:

I've got about 400 pages to get through by next Thursday, and I've only gotten through 20 in the past three days :frown:

. I think I'm just going to have to blag through equity & trusts, and public international, just so that I can get through the tort & admin law work. Being a law student sucks.

Oh I hated trusts, I got 48% for it...eek. But compared to first year that was quite good lol. Public international, what comes under that and Delict/tort is easypeasy I just kept writing causation :tongue:

I got a 63% on that, that was really good in comparison to what people in my year seem to get :biggrin:

And yea, I still haven't got any further I have no idea about employment rules in International private law.

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