Anyone Doing LLB Law?? or done first year modules, and anyone from Preston Uclan??

I'm doing LLB Law, just started my final year.

Have done contract, tort, property & trusts, law & legal skills (mooting etc), EU, individual & the state, constitutional, criminal.

Currently doing this semester family, company and evidence, plus a dissertation. Next semester doing law & literature, child law, criminal justice procedure and finishing dissertation.

Elle

In the harder to grasp subjects such as property & trusts, I would always start with a nutshell. (although NEVER admit to it in front of your lecturers!)

Craic & de Burca was very good for EU - its a huge housbrick of a book, but its all I needed for the entire subject. If your getting bogged down with it, have a look at the Butterworths EU book (its got a bright orange cover) as its great for getting a good feel for it before you delve further for the mark-grabbing details. You can easily get a low 2:1 just using Butterworths, but Craic & de Burca got me my 1:1.

Herring was good for criminal, and I used my nutshell to death to initially familiarise myself with things. Also Criminal Law (Elliot & Quinn) which is an A-Level textbook but you would never believe it, its great. (although again, don't mention it to tutors or use for assignments - my tutor advised me to use it, but don't admit to it as its only an A-Level text)

Property and Trusts - use Land Law (MacKenzie & Phillips) as it is so simple to understand - apparantly it is very borderline between A-Level and degree level, but has the appropriate content for degree so it gets recommended.
I loved Trusts & Equity (Edwards & Stockwell) as its written in the same style and layout as Law of Tort (Cooke) and Law of Contract (Phillips) all of which I would highly recommend for ease of use, understanding and relevance of content. I wouldn't bother with casebooks for EU or Tort or Criminal (I just used Westlaw or something if enough information wasn't in the textbook, which was rare) but I found my contract casebook very useful. (Contract Law, Poole)

I also used the Butterworths Legal Research Guide a lot when doing assignments or looking for something unusual or random - its a great reference to have at your disposal.

My main tip regarding materials would be not to be afraid of using `low brow` materials - do a search on google, use your nutshells, look at an A-Level text - as long as you go deeper and pad it out with the relevent in-depth details and analysis, its a great place to start and promotes clear understanding of the material you are covering.

Oh and make sure your book is up=to-date - a friend of mine though they could save a bit of cash buying secondhand books, then discovered the hard way that presenting inaccurate law does not get you any marks!

thank you very much elle, il take that on board, just been submitted the first coursework peice today, its Public Law,

"Constitutional conventions play an important role in allocating and limiting power within the UK constitution. Despite some uncertainty as to its scope, the convention of individual ministerial responsibility is a good illustration of this"

any help on this please, would be most grateful, im gonna look on olexis nexis for help with cases with this work pieces...

hope the third year isnt hard as ppl say it is... !!

I can't help you offhand - I hated constitutional (public) law and it was 2 years ago I studied it!
I would recommend Administrative Law by Hilare Barnett - I used it and it was a bit tough to get to grips with (its huge and it rambles a bit) but its very useful for essay questions such as this.

The third year is VERY hard, much harder than years 1 & 2. (and the jump to year 2 is pretty severe) However I do think that most of the problem with Year 3 is simply in my head - the psychological pressure of knowing THIS IS IT!! (its 75% of my degree) I've also elected to do a dissertation which while is interesting, Im regretting - it would have been so much easier to do another module instead!

But hey, we troop on....

hey, yeah i have started mine but not finished it. I am hoping to finish it today or possbly tomorrow. I started by briefly describing our unwritten constitution, then went on to describe conventions in general. n then went on to answer the actually question about IMR. I have used a few books. One that i found quite helpful coz it is more basic and easier to understand is Constitutional and administerative law by Neil Parpworth 3rd edition. I have used others to n looked on couple of sites. The Woodhouse articles r quite good but long. well good luck wv it. Sarah x

PS. the assignment qu's for obligations r on Web CT now. Let me know if u cant find them and i will post em on here for you. and have you dont the web ct quiz for lawyer skills yet. i haven't i was just wonderin if it is quite easy or not.

hey thank you sarah for emailing me the obs questions, done my public law, just lil bit to do wiv it in regards to shortening it a lil, anyway take care goodluck wiv yours, speak to soon, iv sent you an email. tc bye for now.... Tanveer Xx