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Introduction to Law - Optional Extras
Choose any Unit below for £100 The Law of Contract Unit: Formation of a Contract, including offer and acceptance; intention to create legal relationships; form; legality and contracts in restraint of trade; consideration; consensus ad idem and capacity. Vitiating Factors: including mistake and undue influence; mistake and misrepresentation. Terms of a Contract: including conditions and warranties; express terms with particular reference to exemption clauses; implied terms with particular reference to the sale of goods and the supply of services. Discharge of Contractual Obligations: including discharge by performance; discharge by agreement; discharge by breach and frustration. Remedies for Breach: including the difference between common law and equitable remedies; damages; re-scission; specific performance and injunction. Criminal Law Unit: The Nature of Criminal Law: including the nature of a crime; distinction between crimes and tort; burden of proof. Classification of Offences: including summary, indictable, hybrid and arrestable offences. Elements of a Crime: including actus reus, mens rea and strict liability; basic intent, specific intent, express intent and implied intent. General Defences: including automatism; mistake; insanity; duress and intoxication. Homicide: including lawful and unlawful homicide; causation in fact and causation in law. Murder: including its definition; malice aforethought express and implied., the differences between murder and manslaughter. Manslaughter: including voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, recklessness, special defences to murder - diminished responsibility, provocation, suicide pact and infanticide. Theft: an understanding of theft, robbery, burglary and obtaining by deception. Procedure in the County Court Unit: including the commencement of proceedings; the rules regarding litigants under a disability; the difference between procedure in the County Court proper and the Small Claims Court; types of summonses; the preparation, issue and service of a default summons; admission; default; pleadings (Particulars of Claim, Defence and Counter- claim); interlocutory applications; pre-trial review; discovery; payment into court; obtaining judgment; ways of enforcing a judgment. Criminal Proceedings Unit: Including the commencement of criminal proceedings - laying an information, summons and arrest; procedure on summary trial, guilty pleas (including pleading guilty by post) and pleas of not- guilty; hybrid offences; transfer of indictable offences from Magistrates Court to Crown Court; Bail; Criminal Legal Aid; Trial on Indictment from arraignment to sentence; burden of proof; qualification and selection of jurors; types of sentences and an awareness of juvenile proceedings. Conveyancing Unit: Including the fee simple absolute in possession; the term of years absolute; the effect of the 1925 property legislation; Registered titles; the system of Land Registration; estates capable of registration; classes of registered titles; Land/Charge Certificates; parts of the Register; third-party rights; registered Charges; overriding interests and minor interests; procedural steps in connection with both a registered and an unregistered title from initial instructions through to completion and beyond; the effects of The Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989; pre-contract Searches and Enquiries; post-contract Searches; deducing and investigating title; co-ownership an awareness of possessory titles, restrictive covenants, exceptions and reservations and easements and an awareness of the form of a Conveyance and a Transfer.
A Further Optional Extra: A legal training day at the Royal Courts of Justice (High Court). If you live in or near London this optional course choice will allow you to carry out some legal assignments in and around the High Courts as if you were actually working for a firm of solicitors and also experience a real court hearing. As part of a small group of trainees a qualified paralegal will supervise and assist you. For further details click here
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