Wooo an OCR law thread! I was beginning to feel really alone on this site with taking these 2 papers! I am really not looking forward to the synoptic special study paper, we only started it after easter and really rushed through it.
I'm loving these predictions! Duress also came into my mind after sifting through the past questions, as it has only come up once in Jan and I think once in June a long time ago. Theft also always comes up, either in a problem question or a section A so I think that is definite. I think it is more likely to appear in a problem question.
I am really going to have to go over my special study source booklet so that I understand it all! Have you guys got the OCR law revision books by Phillip Allan? They are really good, one is totally dedicated to the special study booklet stuff.
EDIT: For crim law 1, you probably already know this but murder or manslaughter always comes up. I think they are more keen on murder too.
Anyone got any ideas about Q1 and Q2 for the special study paper? Re learning statutory interpretation is doing my head in cos our teacher didn't give us any fresh notes, we had to just sift back to what we did a year ago which is really annoying. Is Q1 only really ever going to be on the advantages & disadvantages of the literal and purposive approaches / rules? They couldn't really ask just about the rules of language or the intrinsic/extrinsic aids could they?
For Q4 do you think they will stick with burglary for the scenario Qs as there is more to talk about than Robbery?