This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Statutory interpretation” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas:
The rules of statutory interpretation: literal, golden and mischief rules; the purposive approach.
Internal (intrinsic) and external (extrinsic) aids.
The impact of European Union law and of the Human Rights Act 1998 on statutory interpretation.
The advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches to statutory interpretation.
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Law reform” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas:
The work of the Law Commission: reform, codification, consolidation and repeal.
The advantages and disadvantages of reform through the Law Commission.
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the "The European Union” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas:
The institutions of the European Union: the Council, the Commission, the Parliament and the Court of Justice of the European Union and their functions.
The different sources of European Union law: treaties, regulations and directives.
The impact of European Union law on the law of England and Wales.
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “The criminal courts and lay people” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas:
The criminal process including the classification of offences, and the appeal system.
Criminal court powers and sentencing of adult offenders.
The role of lay people: the role and powers of magistrates in criminal courts and the role of juries in criminal courts.
The advantages and disadvantages of using juries in criminal courts.
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Legal personnel and the judiciary” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas:
The different roles of barristers, solicitors and legal executives.
The regulation of legal personnel.
The judiciary: types of judge.
The role of judges in civil and criminal courts.
The independence of the judiciary: security of tenure, immunity from suit, independence from the Executive.
Reason for and advantages of judicial independence and the methods by which it is achieved.
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Judicial precedent” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas:
The doctrine of judicial precedent.
The hierarchy of the courts including the Supreme Court.
Stare decisis, ratio decidendi and obiter dicta; law reporting in outline and the reasons for it.
The operation of judicial precedent: following, overruling and distinguishing.
The advantages and disadvantages of the doctrine of judicial precedent and the operation of precedent.
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.
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.
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.
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
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Performance” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas:
Definition
Types of performance
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the"Remedies” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas:
Compensatory damages (including categories of recoverable loss, causation, remoteness and mitigation).
Equitable remedies of specific performance and rescission.
Termination of contract for breach.
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Frustration” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas:
Definition
Limitations
Remedies
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Contract terms: exclusion clauses” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas:
The nature of exclusion clauses
Common law controls of exclusion clauses
Statutory controls of exclusion clauses
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Breach (actual and anticipatory breach)” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas:
Definition
Types of breach
Remedies
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Misrepresentation” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas:
Nature
Types
Remedies available
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Economic duress” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following substantive law areas:
Definition
Remedies
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).
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
This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Liability in negligence for economic loss and psychiatric injury” section of the AQA A-Level Law specification. It contains a comprehensive overview of the following areas of substantive law:
Liability for pure economic loss caused by negligent acts and negligent misstatements
Liability for psychiatric injury sustained by primary and secondary victims