AQA A-level Law

What is included

What this course covers

• The nature of law and the English legal system (Papers 1, 2 and 3)

  • Topic 1 — Nature of law
  • Topic 2 — The rule of law
  • Topic 3 — Law making
  • Topic 4 — The legal system

• Criminal law (Paper 1)

  • Topic 5 — Theory in criminal law
  • Topic 6 — General elements of liability
  • Topic 7 — Fatal offences against the person
  • Topic 8 — Non-fatal offences against the person
  • Topic 9 — Property offences
  • Topic 10 — Preliminary offence: attempt
  • Topic 11 — Defences

• Tort (Paper 2)

  • Topic 12 — Theory of tort law
  • Topic 13 — Liability in negligence for physical injury to people and damage to property
  • Topic 14 — Liability in negligence for economic loss and psychiatric injury
  • Topic 15 — Occupiers' liability
  • Topic 16 — Nuisance and the escape of dangerous things
  • Topic 17 — Vicarious liability
  • Topic 18 — Defences
  • Topic 19 — Remedies

• Law of contract (Paper 3 option)

  • Topic 20 — Theory of contract law
  • Topic 21 — Essential requirements of contract
  • Topic 22 — Contract terms
  • Topic 23 — Vitiating factors
  • Topic 24 — Discharge of a contract
  • Topic 25 — Remedies

• Human Rights (Paper 3 option)

  • Topic 26 — Theory in Human Rights
  • Topic 27 — Human Rights in international law
  • Topic 28 — Human Rights in the United Kingdom prior to the Human Rights Act 1998
  • Topic 29 — Human Rights in the United Kingdom after the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998
  • Topic 30 — The European Convention on Human Rights 1953
  • Topic 31 — Human Rights and English law
  • Topic 32 — Reform of the protection of Human Rights in the UK

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