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This shop provides an in-depth guide to the AQA A-Level Law and Philosophy specifications. Each section of the specification is broken down into detailed lessons, covering specific topics in a clear, structured way. Combined, these lessons offer a complete overview of all the essential content needed to excel in exams.

This shop provides an in-depth guide to the AQA A-Level Law and Philosophy specifications. Each section of the specification is broken down into detailed lessons, covering specific topics in a clear, structured way. Combined, these lessons offer a complete overview of all the essential content needed to excel in exams.
The Civil Courts - Revision Summary for Law
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The Civil Courts - Revision Summary for Law

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “The civil courts and other forms of dispute resolution” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas: The civil courts, including the track system and the appeal system. Other forms of dispute resolution: outline of the tribunal structure and the role of tribunals. The roles of mediation and negotiation.
Access to Justice and Funding - Revision Summary for Law
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Access to Justice and Funding - Revision Summary for Law

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Access to justice and funding” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas: Alternative sources of legal advice: help lines, Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), law centres and trade unions. Private funding: own resources, insurance and conditional fee agreements. Public funding: criminal and civil state funding.
Delegated Legislation - Revision Summary for Law
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Delegated Legislation - Revision Summary for Law

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the "Delegated legislation” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas: Types of delegated legislation: orders in council, statutory instruments, bylaws (from local authorities and public bodies). Parliamentary and judicial controls on delegated legislation. The reasons for the use of delegated legislation. The advantages and disadvantages of delegated legislation.
CONTRACT LAW - AQA A-Level Law Lesson Bundle
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CONTRACT LAW - AQA A-Level Law Lesson Bundle

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This bundle contains a comprehensive overview of all substantive law topics under the “Contract Law" section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It includes a detailed overview of the following: Essential requirements of a contract Contract terms Terms implied by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 Exclusion clauses Vitiating factors: misrepresentation and economic duress Discharge by performance, by breach and by frustration Remedies All information students will ever need for their Contract Law exam is contained within the documents above.
Parliamentary Law-Making - Revision Summary for Law
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Parliamentary Law-Making - Revision Summary for Law

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Parliamentary law making” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas: Green and White papers the formal legislative process the influences on parliament the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy and limitations on it the advantages and disadvantages of influences on parliamentary law making
THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM - AQA A-Level Law Lesson Bundle
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THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM - AQA A-Level Law Lesson Bundle

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This bundle contains a comprehensive overview of all topics relating to the English Legal System as outlined by the AQA A-Level Law specification. It includes a detailed overview of the following: Parliamentary law making Delegated legislation Statutory interpretation Judicial precedent Law reform The European Union Civil courts Criminal courts Legal personnel and the judiciary Access to justice and funding All information students will ever need for this section is contained within the documents above.
TORT LAW - AQA A-Level Law Lesson Bundle
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TORT LAW - AQA A-Level Law Lesson Bundle

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This bundle contains a comprehensive overview of all substantive law topics under the “Tort Law” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It includes a detailed overview of the following: Liability for physical injury and damage to property Liability for economic loss and psychiatric injury Occupier’s liability Private nuisance Rylands v Fletcher Vicarious liability Defences Remedies All information students will ever need for their Tort Law exam is contained within the documents above.
Consumer Rights Act 2015 - Revision Summary for Contract Law
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Consumer Rights Act 2015 - Revision Summary for Contract Law

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Consumer Rights Act 2015” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas of the Act, as per the specification: Terms implied into a contract to supply goods: s9 (satisfactory quality) s10 (fitness for particular purpose) s11 (description). Remedies for the breach of a term implied into a contract to supply goods: s20 (short term right to reject) s23 (right to repair or a replacement) s24 (right to a price reduction or a final right to reject). Terms implied into a contract to supply services: s49 (reasonable care and skill) s52 (performance within a reasonable time). Remedies for the breach of a term implied into a contract to supply services: s55 (right to repeat performance) s56 (right to a price reduction).
Formation of a Contract - Revision Summary for Contract Law
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Formation of a Contract - Revision Summary for Contract Law

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This 21-page document resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Essential requirements of a contract” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas: Offer Acceptance Intent to create legal relations Consideration Privity of contract
Contract Terms - Revision Summary for Contract Law
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Contract Terms - Revision Summary for Contract Law

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Contract terms: general” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas: Express terms Implied terms Conditions Warranties Innominate terms
Preliminary Offences - Revision Summary for Law
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Preliminary Offences - Revision Summary for Law

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Preliminary Offences” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following crime: Attempts
Functionalism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Functionalism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Functionalism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: Functionalism: all mental states can be characterised in terms of functional roles which can be multiply realised. Issues, including: the possibility of a functional duplicate with different qualia (inverted qualia) the possibility of a functional duplicate with no mentality/qualia (Ned Block’s China thought experiment) the ‘knowledge’/Mary argument can be applied to functional facts (no amount of facts about function suffices to explain qualia).
Eliminative Materialism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Eliminative Materialism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Eliminative Materialism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: Some or all common-sense (“folk-psychological”) mental states/properties do not exist and our common-sense understanding is radically mistaken (as defended by Patricia Churchland and Paul Churchland). Issues including: our certainty about the existence of our mental states takes priority over other considerations folk-psychology has good predictive and explanatory power (and so is the best hypothesis) the articulation of eliminative materialism as a theory is self-refuting.
Mind-Brain Type Identity Theory - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Mind-Brain Type Identity Theory - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Mind-Brain Type Identity Theory” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: All mental states are identical to brain states (‘ontological’ reduction) although ‘mental state’ and ‘brain state’ are not synonymous (so not an ‘analytic’ reduction). Issues including: dualist arguments applied to mind-brain type identity theory issues with providing the type identities (the multiple realisability of mental states).
Property Offences - Revision Summary for Law
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Property Offences - Revision Summary for Law

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Property Offences” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following crimes: Theft Robbery
Property Dualism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Property Dualism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Property Dualism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: There are at least some mental properties that are neither reducible to nor supervenient upon physical properties. The ‘philosophical zombies’ argument for property dualism (David Chalmers). Responses including: a ‘philosophical zombie’/a ‘zombie’ world is not conceivable what is conceivable may not be metaphysically possible what is metaphysically possible tells us nothing about the actual world. The ‘knowledge/Mary’ argument for property dualism (Frank Jackson). Responses including: Mary does not gain new propositional knowledge but does gain ability knowledge (the ‘ability knowledge’ response). Mary does not gain new propositional knowledge but does gain acquaintance knowledge (the ‘acquaintance knowledge’ response). Mary gains new propositional knowledge, but this is knowledge of physical facts that she already knew in a different way (the ‘New Knowledge / Old Fact’ response).
Behaviourism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Behaviourism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Physical Behaviourism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: ‘Hard’ behaviourism: all propositions about mental states can be reduced without loss of meaning to propositions that exclusively use the language of physics to talk about bodily states/movements (including Carl Hempel). ‘Soft’ behaviourism: propositions about mental states are propositions about behavioural dispositions (ie propositions that use ordinary language) (including Gilbert Ryle). Issues including: the distinctness of mental states from behaviour (including Hilary Putnam’s ‘Super-Spartans’ and perfect actors) issues defining mental states satisfactorily due to (a) circularity and (b) the multiple realisability of mental states in behaviour the asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people’s mental states.
Issues with Dualism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Issues with Dualism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Issues Facing Dualism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: Issues facing dualism, including: The problem of other minds Responses including: the argument from analogy the existence of other minds is the best hypothesis. Dualism makes a “category mistake” (Gilbert Ryle) Issues facing interactionist dualism, including: the conceptual interaction problem (as articulated by Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia) the empirical interaction problem. Issues facing epiphenomenalist dualism, including: the challenge posed by introspective self-knowledge the challenge posed by the phenomenology of our mental life (ie as involving causal connections, both psychological and psycho-physical) the challenge posed by natural selection/evolution.
Substance Dualism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary
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Substance Dualism - AQA A-Level Philosophy Revision Summary

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This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Substance Dualism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information: Minds exist and are not identical to bodies or to parts of bodies. The indivisibility argument for substance dualism (Descartes). Responses, including: the mental is divisible in some sense not everything thought of as physical is divisible. The conceivability argument for substance dualism (expressed without reference to God) (Descartes). Responses including: mind without body is not conceivable what is conceivable may not be metaphysically possible what is metaphysically possible tells us nothing about the actual world.