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Family Law
Hey everyone,
I'd like to pick your brains if possible! I'm thinking of doing family law as one of my options next year, but I don't know anybody who has done it.
Has anyone here done it? If so, is it a big topic? Are the cases hard to remember - as in are they all simply letters of the alphabet (A v Z; Re F; etc.)? Did you enjoy it?
Cheers!
xx
I'd like to pick your brains if possible! I'm thinking of doing family law as one of my options next year, but I don't know anybody who has done it.
Has anyone here done it? If so, is it a big topic? Are the cases hard to remember - as in are they all simply letters of the alphabet (A v Z; Re F; etc.)? Did you enjoy it?
Cheers!
xx
Reply 1
ive just chosen family law to study nxt yr, along with evidence. Dobnt mean to hijack our thread but info on evidence would be good as well!!
From wot Ive seen from looking into family law (i looked into it b4 i picked it) it seems really interesting, covers things like, parental responsibility, domestic violence, marriages, spouses, civil partnership etc. The case were all like A v B (a minor) tho, so I can imagine they are quite difficult to remember cos they all sound the same!!
From wot Ive seen from looking into family law (i looked into it b4 i picked it) it seems really interesting, covers things like, parental responsibility, domestic violence, marriages, spouses, civil partnership etc. The case were all like A v B (a minor) tho, so I can imagine they are quite difficult to remember cos they all sound the same!!
Reply 2
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ive just chosen family law to study nxt yr, along with evidence. Dobnt mean to hijack our thread but info on evidence would be good as well!!
From wot Ive seen from looking into family law (i looked into it b4 i picked it) it seems really interesting, covers things like, parental responsibility, domestic violence, marriages, spouses, civil partnership etc. The case were all like A v B (a minor) tho, so I can imagine they are quite difficult to remember cos they all sound the same!!
From wot Ive seen from looking into family law (i looked into it b4 i picked it) it seems really interesting, covers things like, parental responsibility, domestic violence, marriages, spouses, civil partnership etc. The case were all like A v B (a minor) tho, so I can imagine they are quite difficult to remember cos they all sound the same!!
I didn't study family law, but I should htink if they're all named after letters it increases your chances of guessing correctly. After all, only 26 possibilities
Reply 3
Haha! Good point ethereal! That will fit nicely with my usual exam technique of generally making up case names then.... 
Reply 4
Hey, I studied family law before as one of my modules. It's not really a big topic and involves mostly divorce, nullity, children's rights, adoption and cohabitation. Family law is mostly statute based, so cases aren't so much of a problem. It was all right; I liked the subject because of the good books in this area, rather than the lectures.
Reply 5
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Hey I've just finished family law. It was my saviour exam!
It was incredibly short compared with my other modules (land, eu and healthcare). It was basically Divorce, Nullity, financial consequesnces of relationship breakdown, cohabiting, adoption, private and public law disputes (like where children go when a family seperates or what happens when a local authority wants to take a child into care)
Nullity and divorce and public and private is all statute. Learn the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and the Children Act 1989 and you're sorted!
I found it quite boring (I expected to really enjoy it, but I thank god I found it easy as the rest of my exams killed me) but it's a very easy topic to revise for, I found.
Best of Luck if you do choose it!
It was incredibly short compared with my other modules (land, eu and healthcare). It was basically Divorce, Nullity, financial consequesnces of relationship breakdown, cohabiting, adoption, private and public law disputes (like where children go when a family seperates or what happens when a local authority wants to take a child into care)
Nullity and divorce and public and private is all statute. Learn the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and the Children Act 1989 and you're sorted!
I found it quite boring (I expected to really enjoy it, but I thank god I found it easy as the rest of my exams killed me) but it's a very easy topic to revise for, I found.
Best of Luck if you do choose it!
Reply 6
I really enjoyed family law - where cases are concerned and when writing exams, there really cannot be a right answer, so its a case of applying different cases and stating what you think may happen.
But apart from this, it is mainly statute based, and very few statutes. A lot of the principles are in the media so much you'll already be familiar with them, and its very easy to put the law in context and assimilate it in your own mind as family life is something we all have in one form or another!!!!!!
As regards the poster who asked about evidence, I really enjoyed evidence as well, although I found it a little more difficult. The Keane textbook was really helpful though - I bought Cross & Tapper at first and struggled with it, so bit the bullet and invested in Keane as well.
Evidence is VERY controversial, you'll find yourself having great debates and being wrong very often at first!! There are so many contradictions, ie, the witness testimony is the strongest yet most unreliable form of evidence etc etc., that there is always something to be suprised about. Plus our tutor was a forensic evidence scientist person, and his anecdotes were fantastic! Although this did sometimes mean we wandered off topic a bit lol!!
I would personally recommend both these modules.
But apart from this, it is mainly statute based, and very few statutes. A lot of the principles are in the media so much you'll already be familiar with them, and its very easy to put the law in context and assimilate it in your own mind as family life is something we all have in one form or another!!!!!!
As regards the poster who asked about evidence, I really enjoyed evidence as well, although I found it a little more difficult. The Keane textbook was really helpful though - I bought Cross & Tapper at first and struggled with it, so bit the bullet and invested in Keane as well.
Evidence is VERY controversial, you'll find yourself having great debates and being wrong very often at first!! There are so many contradictions, ie, the witness testimony is the strongest yet most unreliable form of evidence etc etc., that there is always something to be suprised about. Plus our tutor was a forensic evidence scientist person, and his anecdotes were fantastic! Although this did sometimes mean we wandered off topic a bit lol!!
I would personally recommend both these modules.
Reply 7
I've got evidence as one of my modules next year, and really looking forward to it
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