by Kris | Mar 15, 2010 | Get qualified
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that New York Bar courses are the latest UK legal education money-spinner? CLT and BPP allude to the “benefit” of a dual US/UK qualification and hey, maybe they’re right – but now the College of Law is...
by Kris | Mar 11, 2010 | Get qualified
A second-year LL.B. student asked me the other day if it was, “too early” to start making summer placement and training contract applications. Absolutely not. I’ll let the legend that is Dr Menski explain.
by Kris | Mar 7, 2010 | Get qualified
If you want to write a great essay, you must have an introduction. It sounds simple enough, but students struggle with the concept of stating their conclusion in their introduction. When my lecturer suggested I write a “formal” introduction and...
by Kris | Feb 1, 2010 | Get qualified
The best revision advice I’d ever received came, not from a law tutor, but from a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Police’s training school in Hendon. It’s the, “One day, one week, one month” approach to memory and study. Here’s...
by Kris | Dec 1, 2009 | Get qualified
Does the feedback you receive from your lecturer and/or tutor on your problem question assignments and practice questions help you understand where you could improve? My convenor recently called a meeting of all law lecturers at our university. To gauge whether we...
by Kris | Sep 17, 2009 | Criminal law, Get qualified, Miscellany
If you remember nothing else, remember this – knowing the law isn’t enough That’s right, you can sit in lectures listening and in the library reading until the cows come home and you will still be mediocre (or fail) if you do not know how to apply the law to the facts...
