WJEC AS Law - motivation help!

Hello all, I have passion for law but as I am taking 4 A levels I am finding it very hard to keep on top of and remember all the names of the individual cases. Is there any advice anyone can offer me? I have tried flashcards but the names are all quite similar and unremarkable so I'm finding it slightly difficult. - What does everyone else do? :smile:

I am wanting to study law at university with the goal of becoming a barrister.

Reply 1

Stiffy Byng

You don't need to take four A levels.

Try to remember the principle which each case represents, and as long as you can remember the shortened name of one of the parties, or the name of the ship if the case involves a ship, that's enough. For example, Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd can be remembered as Hong Kong Fur, and Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd can be remembered as High Trees. It's much easier to remember The Hannah Blumenthal than Paal Wilson & Co. v. Partenreederei Hannah Blumenthal.

Criminal cases are harder to recall because Jones, Smith etc are not very memorable. Try to remember a salient fact (eg "the one about the bloke hitting someone with a chapati pan", the one about the stolen TVs" etc.)

Reply 2

NoodlesHJ

Original post

by Stiffy Byng

You don't need to take four A levels.
Try to remember the principle which each case represents, and as long as you can remember the shortened name of one of the parties, or the name of the ship if the case involves a ship, that's enough. For example, Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd can be remembered as Hong Kong Fur, and Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd can be remembered as High Trees. It's much easier to remember The Hannah Blumenthal than Paal Wilson & Co. v. Partenreederei Hannah Blumenthal.
Criminal cases are harder to recall because Jones, Smith etc are not very memorable. Try to remember a salient fact (eg "the one about the bloke hitting someone with a chapati pan", the one about the stolen TVs" etc.)

Hiya, unfortunately my school expects ll students to take 4 a levels at AS then drop one for A2 :smile:

Reply 3

UoL Students

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by NoodlesHJ

I am wanting to study law at university with the goal of becoming a barrister.

Hello @NoodlesHJ

First of all, I agree with previous responses that you do not need to take 4 A Levels. It is understandable that you are doing 4 AS Levels but I would highly recommend you only go forward with 3 A Levels, but an EPQ is always very valuable if you wanted to do this next year.

In terms of remembering cases, I know and appreciate how hard it is but really you can only memorise them by keep going over the case names and revising. I use Memrise for instance which is really useful for me with my university law exams. I will include the links below but they are for Land Law and Equity and Trusts.

Also, just try your very best to remember all the cases (and most certainly all the key cases) to the best of your ability. It is likely you won't remember them perfectly and in the exam you may forget the case name and/or year but that is ok, it is perfectly normal and you should just accept this.

I hope this helps, if you have any further questions please do let me know.

Charlie
Law LLB Student