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Mrs Lindley will be pairing Law students for the Mooting Competition on Monday 21st May 2012. If you want a specific moot partner, from your class, you must notify Mrs Lindley before 10am on the 21st May. If you do not notify her of your choice by that time/date, she will allocate you a moot partner. Details of the draw (who is against who) for the early rounds of the Mooting Competition will be posted here. Students should read and precis Chapters 1-3 of ‘OCR Criminal Law for A2′ by J Martin (this needs to be done for the 11th June).
The Mooting Competition in June/July 2012 will be on three areas of Law: ‘Murder/Involuntary Manslaughter’, ‘Attempts’, and ‘Non-Fatal Offences’. The first round of the Mooting Competition will be on ‘Murder/Involuntary Manslaughter’, second round on ‘Attempts’, third round on ‘Non Fatal Offences Against the Person’ (these areas will be examined in January 2013). Please see the specially designed Moot cases for the competition. Any students knocked out of the Competition (or who fails to participate for any reason) will be required to give written legal opinions for all rounds they do not succeed in – i.e. before the start of the next round (hand your written legal opinions to Mr Bunce).
A ‘Starter Guide Pencast’ on the points of law for each of the Moot cases can be found here: Moot 1 – R v Charlie, Moot 2 – R v James, Moot 3 – R v Joe.
Will this reach Number One in the charts? Comments welcome.
In an interesting High Court decision, the Education Secretary, Mr Michael Gove, has lost a legal battle with Essex County Council over government cuts to nursery funding.
The Council had claimed that Mr Gove breached equality laws when he slashed a councils budget by £10m – hitting the county’s disabled children. The High Court have ruled that the decision was unlawful and must be reviewed. Mr Justice Mitting finding that Mr Gove had not met his legal obligations under equality laws. Read this BBC press report for details.
Ms Attewell provides an answer to some questions from a Politics student. The answers may interest other students.
Students who turn up for AS Law revision classes (at the normal time of your lessons in C, D, and G Blocks) taking place 14th-25th May will be given a FREE revision guide for G152 Sources of Law or G151 The English Legal System. A number of students are required to turn up for these lessons – they will also get a free revision guide.
A2 Law students, who are re-siting AS Law exams, are advised that they should consider turning up to the AS Law revision classes.
Cllr Linda Gillham, Mairead Finlay, Dhanya Acharya, Ms Wellemina Attewell (Politics Teacher) with a new EU flag for the Politics classroom.
It seems that President Obama adviser, John Brennan, considers that US drone attacks are “legal, proportionate and necessary.” Listen to the arguments of John Brennan: Do you agree that sending a drone (unmanned plane/bomb) to kill individuals (who may be classed as terrorists) residing/working in other countries can be justified as legal?
Police are currently banned by law from taking industrial action, However, up to 30,000 off-duty officers marched in a protest rally in London today.
A Government Mnister was heard on the radio this morning explaining that the Police Officers were not on strike, they were simply on a days “unpaid leave”. But doesn’t everyone who goes on strike take “unpaid leave”?
While the Queen’s Speech 2012 has been criticised for its failure to discuss proposals for economic growth, the Coalition Govt consider that putting cameras in Courts is of more importance. So TV cameras, and House of Lords reform, could be amongst the most interesting to Laws students.
Can torture by Waterboarding or any other means be justified? Under the terms of the European Convention of Human Rights you cannot justify torture. It is simply not acceptable. Comments welcome.