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Murder is a common law offence resulting a mandatory life sentence. It was defined by Lord Justice Coke in the 17th century as 'the unlawful killing of a reasonable person in being and uner the Queen's peace...

Case cards! You can use index cards to briefly write the name of the case and the facts on it then get someone to test you. Drawing pictures may help. One of the best ways is to find a way a case relates to ...

For AS, it is useful to create model answers of all the qustions that could come up in Law 01 (e.g. features of judicial precedent, law reports etc.) and the first 2 questions for Law 02 (such as strict liab...

The Law Commission (LC) has described the law of murder as a "rickety structure built on shaky foundations", thus one can discern from this that the current offense of murder is unstable and in nee...

The Gillick Principle orginates from the House of Lords case, Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority) [1986]. A mother, who was a devout Catholics and didn’t believe in contraception, took ...