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Business Law and Practice

General Partnerships
Limited Liability Partnerships
Nature and Formation of Companies
Companies: Directors and Officers
Companies: Members
Companies: Joint Decision Making
Companies: Raising Finance
Companies: Recordkeeping, Filing, and Disclosure
Insolvency

Constitutional Law

Features of UK Constitution
Constitutional Principles
Parliament
Monarch, Crown, and Royal Prerogative
Central Government and Accountability
Devolution
Judicial Review
Human Rights Act 1998
Public Order Law
Place of the EU in UK Constitution

Contract Law

Introduction to Formation of Contracts
Agreement – Offer and Acceptance
Intention to Create Legal Relations; Capacity
Consideration
Privity of Contract
Determining the Terms of the Contract
Exclusion Clauses
Vitiating Factors
Misrepresentation
Discharge and Variation of Contract
Remedies

Criminal Law

Burden and Standards of Proof, and Elements of Liability
Homicide Offences
Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
Offences Under the Theft Act
Fraud Offences
Criminal Damage Offences
Parties
Inchoate/Incomplete Offences
Criminal Capacity and Defences

Criminal Practice

The Criminal Justice System
Advising Clients at the Police Station
Bail Applications at Court
First Hearings Before the Magistrates
Plea Before Venue
Case Management and Pre-Trial Hearings
Procedures to Admit and Exclude Evidence
Trial Procedures in Magistrates’ and Crown Courts
Sentencing Principles
Appeals Procedure
Youth Court Procedure

Dispute Resolution

Methods of Dispute Resolution
Pre-Action Considerations: Limitation
Pre-Action Considerations: Protocols and Applications
Starting Proceedings: Choice of Court
Issuing Proceedings
Service of Proceedings
Responding to a Claim
Statements of Case
Case Management
Interim Applications
Disclosure and Inspections
Witness Evidence
Expert Evidence
Trial
Appeals
Costs
Part 36 Offers to Settle Claim
Enforcement of Money Judgments

Ethics

Seven Mandatory Principles
Maintaining Trust and Acting Fairly
Dispute Resolution and Proceedings
Service and Competence
Client Money and Assets
Business Requirements
Conflicts, Confidentiality, and Disclosure
Co-Operation and Accountability
Providing Services to the Public

Land Law

The Nature of Land
Estates and Interests in Land
Principles of Unregistered Title to Land
Registration of Title to Land
Co-Ownership of Land
Leases
Easements and Profits
Freehold Covenants
Mortgages

Legal Services

Regulatory Role of the SRA
Funding of Legal Services
Equality Act 2010
Money Laundering
Financial Services

Legal System of England and Wales

Introduction
Statutory Interpretation
Court Structure
Appeals
System of Precedent

Property Practice

Stage 1: Different Types of Transactions; Preliminary Matters
Stage 1 and 2: Starting a Conveyancing Transaction
Investigating Title
Buyer’s Pre-Contract Searches
Town/Country Planning
Stage 2: Buyer’s Funding
Stage 3: Exchange of Contracts
Stage 4: Pre-Completion
Stage 5: Completion
Stage 6: Post-Completion
Remedies for Delay Commercial Security of Tenure

Solicitors Accounts

Introduction/General Concepts
Placement of Client/Business Funds
Dealing with VAT
Deposits Held as Agent or Stakeholders; Petty Cash; Interest

Tax

Income Tax
Inheritance Tax – Introduction and Lifetime Transfers
Inheritance Tax – Death Estate, Post-Mortem Reliefs, Anti-Avoidance, and Payment of IHT
Taxation of Estates in Administration
Capital Gains Tax
Corporation Tax
Value Added Tax
Stamp Duty Land Tax

Tort Law

Intentional Torts
Negligence
Negligence: Pure Economic Loss
Negligence: Psychiatric Harm
Employers’ Liability
Vicarious Liability
Remedies for Personal Injury and Death
Occupiers’ Liability
Liability in Tort for Defective Products
Breach of Statutory Duty
Nuisance; Rule in Rylands v Fletcher

Trusts

Introduction
Express Private Trusts
Resulting Trusts
Trusts of Family Home
Charitable and Other Purpose Trusts
Appointment, Retirement, and Removal of Trustees
Trustees’ Duties and Powers
Liability for Breach of Trust

Wills and Estate Administration

Execution, Alteration, Amendment, Revocation and Interpretation of Wills
Intestacy;Property Passing Outside the Will or Intestacy
Personal Representatives Grants, Pre-Grant Procedures, Applying to Court
Dealing with HMRC
PR Duties, Administrative Powers, and Protection
Collecting and Realising Assets
Post-Death Changes
Legacies
Residue
Estate Accounts
Assents Beneficiaries’ Rights and Remedies
Provision for Family and Dependents Act