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Law
A-LevelOCR

OCR A-level Law

Law

What is included

Notes

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Flashcards

Active recall — topic by topic, spaced repetition

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Fast-fire knowledge checks to lock in key facts

Practice questions

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What this course covers

  • The legal system (Paper 1 Section A)

    • Topic 1 — Civil courts and other forms of dispute resolution
    • Topic 2 — Criminal courts and lay people
    • Topic 3 — Legal personnel
    • Topic 4 — Access to justice

  • Criminal law (Paper 1 Section B)

    • Topic 5 — Rules and theory
    • Topic 6 — General elements of criminal liability
    • Topic 7 — Fatal offences against the person
    • Topic 8 — Non-fatal offences against the person
    • Topic 9 — Offences against property
    • Topic 10 — Mental capacity defences
    • Topic 11 — General defences
    • Topic 12 — Preliminary offences: attempts, the actus reus and mens rea, and impossibility
    • Topic 13 — Evaluation

  • Law making (Paper 2 Section A)

    • Topic 14 — Parliamentary law making
    • Topic 15 — Delegated legislation
    • Topic 16 — Statutory interpretation
    • Topic 17 — Judicial precedent
    • Topic 18 — Law reform
    • Topic 19 — European Union law

  • The law of tort (Paper 2 Section B)

    • Topic 20 — Rules and theory
    • Topic 21 — Liability in negligence
    • Topic 22 — Occupiers’ liability
    • Topic 23 — Torts connected to land
    • Topic 24 — Vicarious liability
    • Topic 25 — Defences
    • Topic 26 — Remedies: compensatory damages, mitigation of loss and injunctions
    • Topic 27 — Evaluation

  • The nature of law (Papers 3 and 4 Section A)

    • Topic 28 — Introduction to the nature of law
    • Topic 29 — Law and morality
    • Topic 30 — Law and justice
    • Topic 31 — Law and society

  • Human rights law (Paper 3 Section B)

    • Topic 32 — Rules and theory
    • Topic 33 — Protection of the individual’s human rights and freedoms in the UK
    • Topic 34 — Key provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights
    • Topic 35 — Human rights and English law
    • Topic 36 — Enforcement of human rights law
    • Topic 37 — Evaluation

  • The law of contract (Paper 4 Section B)

    • Topic 38 — Rules and theory
    • Topic 39 — Formation
    • Topic 40 — Terms
    • Topic 41 — Vitiating factors
    • Topic 42 — Discharge
    • Topic 43 — Remedies
    • Topic 44 — Evaluation

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