Law
The intention of this course is to demonstrate how law works and how lawyers, and in particular judges in the Higher Courts, use legal reasoning in order to come to a decision based on sound legal principles. The idea will be to get you to act and think like a lawyer by looking at decided cases (precedents) and hypothetical scenarios. In this way we will together try to come to a decision from a given set of facts, but based on proper legal authority.
We will attempt by class discussion to try to answer for ourselves questions about law. What is law? How has the law grown? What are the sources of law? How is the law administered? What professions are involved in the legal system? How are cases brought to court in civil cases and in criminal cases? Who can bring cases to court? Who cannot bring cases to court?
We will then move on to look at the great areas of law: tort, contract, consumer law, criminal law, the law of succession and employment law, and then discuss how much EC law has really impacted on the law as applied in the UK.