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Help With Tort Exam!!!!

i am retaking the tort exam as i have struggled with it this year, from the topics vicarious liability, economic loss, occupiers liability, psychiatric injury and medical negligence, which three or four topics would you chose to revise? vicarious and psychiatric are essay questions, the rest are problem questions, so which do u think would be good to revise? do u think its easier doing problem questions or essays? any help would be great thanks, xx

Reply 1

superdillon

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koena

i am retaking the tort exam as i have struggled with it this year, from the topics vicarious liability, economic loss, occupiers liability, psychiatric injury and medical negligence, which three or four topics would you chose to revise? vicarious and psychiatric are essay questions, the rest are problem questions, so which do u think would be good to revise? do u think its easier doing problem questions or essays? any help would be great thanks, xx

Torts is a difficult subject and I guess that revising for it now must be even tougher in the retake exam that you have to take in the not so distant future.
Good essay areas from the topics you listed are all of them except vicarious liability. It's not too difficult to know what it is but to write an essay just based on it would be quite demanding.

Economic loss and Psychiatric injury are both excellent topics to revise well. There isn't that much case-law (compared to other areas) and you can usually apply them easily.

Occupiers liability involves knowing two main statutes: OLA 1957, OLA 1984. Once you become familiar with what they say it really isn't that difficult to apply to a problem question should one come up.

Medical negligence is quite a complex area of neligence law but again it's relatively easy to write about assuming that you know the case-law (which is quite tedious and would take some time)

People generally find problem questions easier to do as they are "directed" more as to how to answer the question. However it is important that you make no significant omissions otherwise you are looking at lower grades.
Essay questions, on the other hand can be quite open and there is greater opportunity to discuss issues in more detail (although it still needs to be within the parameters of the question). In essay questions you can impress the examiner with any other material that you know/have read as long as it is relevant.

My approach was contrary to what most people do as I did essay questions mostly unless I thought I could do a problems question really well.

I know this revision time must be a lot of anxiety for you but you need to remain calm in the exam to ensure that you do not fall into the same trap again. I did best in the module that I knew least about and I think it was because I used the little material that I did know really effectively and sounded much more interesting than the textbook regurgitation that I made in other module's exams. The lesson to learn is that what you lack in knowledge you can make up for in how you present it.

Good luck.

Reply 2

koena

OP

thankyou for that, it has helped, learning the material isnt a problem its just the note making part and putting it all together, sometimes you think the notes youve made and learnd on the topic will be useful and correct but turns out it wasnt becasue the topics are so broad that u have to focus on certain things when it comes to answering the question, my problem is that i ramble on abt irrelevant things not related to the exam question but within the same topic! ive pased everything else except this exam so hope it does go well :smile:

thanx for your help anyway x

Reply 3

Danny5876

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Perhaps you will get more responses if this thread was posted on the university law section rather than A level law.

Reply 4

koena

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actually it does say help for degree level aswell, whereas the university law section focuses more on what the course involves and for those who are thinking of studying law!! which rules me out! so therfore i think ive posted it in the write section love.

Reply 5

Danny5876

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koena

actually it does say help for degree level aswell, whereas the university law section focuses more on what the course involves and for those who are thinking of studying law!! which rules me out! so therfore i think ive posted it in the write section love.

But you lack responses. It would be much more productive if you post this on the university law forum, as you would be much more likely to get more responses there.

Reply 6

superdillon

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koena

i am retaking the tort exam as i have struggled with it this year, from the topics vicarious liability, economic loss, occupiers liability, psychiatric injury and medical negligence, which three or four topics would you chose to revise? vicarious and psychiatric are essay questions, the rest are problem questions, so which do u think would be good to revise? do u think its easier doing problem questions or essays? any help would be great thanks, xx

Have already answered this exact same question in the Academic help law area. Here's the link if you couldn't find it:

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=262598

Reply 7

Lewisy-boy

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econ, psy and occupiers are easiest in my opinion... seems to have a far lower content than our exam we had trespass, nuisance, defamation etc in there and there were 10 topics!!

Reply 8

dragon_1706

It's a bit difficult for anyone else to tell you what easiest, as it really depends on how you find each topic! I know there were some I found easy, but others in my group found harder, so it does vary from person to person. The same goes for problem questions/essays - different people prefer different things!

Reply 9

superdillon

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Lewis-HuStuJCR

econ, psy and occupiers are easiest in my opinion... seems to have a far lower content than our exam we had trespass, nuisance, defamation etc in there and there were 10 topics!!

Don't think Koena listed her entire torts syallabus there. "Negligence" perhaps the most important tort wasn't on the list.

Reply 10

Lewisy-boy

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ermmm yea it is, negligence occasioning econ/psy injury... they hardly ever examined physical neg at notts cos its too easy.

Reply 11

superdillon

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Lewis-HuStuJCR

ermmm yea it is, negligence occasioning econ/psy injury... they hardly ever examined physical neg at notts cos its too easy.

Sorry, I meant the the tort of negligence not negligence occassioning economic loss/psychiatric harm just plain negligence. Remember duty/breach of duty/causation....

Reply 12

Lewisy-boy

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yea, those tests apply to econ/psy also ... have you studied it? they are just in different guises.

Reply 13

superdillon

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Lewis-HuStuJCR

yea, those tests apply to econ/psy also ... have you studied it? they are just in different guises.

Yes I have studied it, did it in my first year.
Negligence was the first tort we covered and then later we applied it to things like psychiatric harm.

Reply 14

chocmonster

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koena

i am retaking the tort exam as i have struggled with it this year, from the topics vicarious liability, economic loss, occupiers liability, psychiatric injury and medical negligence, which three or four topics would you chose to revise? vicarious and psychiatric are essay questions, the rest are problem questions, so which do u think would be good to revise? do u think its easier doing problem questions or essays? any help would be great thanks, xx

have a look at some past papers because its likely the same topics will come up in a slightly different format, especially in the problem questions...altho i would only recommend selective revision if you are sure you have no time to cover everything! good luck

Reply 15

superdillon

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chocmonster

have a look at some past papers because its likely the same topics will come up in a slightly different format, especially in the problem questions

Note in particular problem questions on Occupier's Liability. As long as you are familiar with OLA 1957 and 1984 (and the main case-law) then applying it shouldn't be too difficult.

Reply 16

Ethereal

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This thread is straying dangerously close to facilitating unfair means.

Reply 17

chalks

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There's some case about a snail, I think. Take a look at that. Laid down the overriding principle that drinking ginger beer is a bad thing.

Reply 18

superdillon

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chalks

There's some case about a snail, I think. Take a look at that. Laid down the overriding principle that drinking ginger beer is a bad thing.

LOL. Also that a certain cafe in Paisley should be out of bounds to people that like putting ginger ale on their ice-cream.
Of course the real lesson to be learnt is don't let your "friend" by you the ginger ale in the first place.