A brilliant selection of law (and some RE) resources to help support A-Level and BTEC syllabus.
Everything is bright, colourful and completely OTT. Just like it should be.
A brilliant selection of law (and some RE) resources to help support A-Level and BTEC syllabus.
Everything is bright, colourful and completely OTT. Just like it should be.
This crib sheet is designed to accompany a lesson on the civil justice system. It focusses on the Woolf reforms with one side to fill in the problems identified with Lord Woolf and the other side to fill in some of the solutions.
I also recommend students fill in the ‘success’ of the reforms on the back!
This is a great worksheet for students to use in class but also works well as a revision tool or homework.
It is a nice colourful sheet that looks great printed in colour or completed digitally but it also prints perfectly fine in black and white.
This worksheet is designed to help students organise their knowledge about adult sentencing.
This can be given to students during lessons or as a homework activity.
Contains boxes for them to fill in information about:
Aggravating & mitigating factors
Custodial sentences
Fines
Discharges
Community orders
Looks great printed in colour or filled in digitally but also prints absolutely fine in black and white.
This crib sheet helps students to organise their knowledge on youth sentencing.
It contains three tables to be completed during class or as an additional homework activity. It also contains space to fill in some of the conditions that may be attached to a caution.
Areas to complete:
Pre-Court Sentencing
First Tier Sentences
Custodial Sentences
Caution Conditions
This is a nice colourful worksheet that looks amazing when printed in colour or completed digitally but also works perfectly well in black and white.
This crib sheet will help students organise their knowledge of the civil appeals system.
It has space for students to fill in a diagram of the civil appeals system as well as key information.
Great for students to do in class or as a homework or revision activity.
Information to fill in:
Civil appeals structure
Leapfrog appeals
Definition of leave
It looks great printed in colour or completed digitally but also prints fine in black and white.
This is an A-Level law mock paper.
This is Paper 2: Substantive Law in Practice with the Contract Law option (there are no Human Rights questions included).
Paper is laid out to look similar to an Eduqas exam paper.
Contains six questions, students can pick one from each area.
Each question is a scenario question.
This mock is designed to be delivered following just a few contract law lessons. By this points students are expected to have done: offer, acceptance, intention to create legal relations, consideration & privity
Question Topics
Tort Law
Land Based Torts
Negligence
Contract Law
Formation
Privity of Contract
Criminal Law
Fatal Offences
Property Offences
Number of Questions: 6 (3 to be answered)
Exam Board: Eduqas
Topics: Tort Law, Contract Law & Criminal Law
Question Style: 25 mark evaluation
Exam Paper: Paper 3: Perspectives on the Substantive Law
This is a mock exam paper designed for second year students who are taking the contract law option. There are six questions on the paper, two for each topic, students can pick one for each area of law (answering 3 in total).
The paper is designed to look and feel like an Eduqas exam paper.
A note about contract law: This paper is designed for students who have started contract law but not completed it. They should have knowledge of offer & acceptance, intention to create legal relations, consideration and privity of contract
Question Topics
Contract Law
Consideration
Intention to Create Legal Relations
Tort Law
Trespass
Psychiatric Injury
Criminal Law
Strict liability
Attempt
Exam Board: Eduqas
Marks: 15
Essay Style: Evaluation
Topic: Civil Appeals
Unit: English Legal Systems
This is a 15 mark evaluation style question on civil appeals. This is designed to suit the Eduqas Paper 1 English Legal Systems unit. This is an unusual evaluation question and students may find it a more challenging one to answer. It is a useful essay to assign in Year 13 as part of exam preparation.
Along with the essay question there is also a model plan and a model answer that can help support your marking and support students in doing their DIRT work.
This is a really fun little contract law revision exercise.
Included:
30x Bingo Cards
Question Sheet
Preparing the Cards
Laminate the cards to ensure that they can be used over and over again getting students to mark them with white board markers
How to Play
Choose a question at random from the question sheet
Make sure to cross it off once you have said it
Students mark off the answer on their bingo cards
The first student to get all of the correct answers marked off wins!
This is a great revision tool but can also be used as a starter or plenary activity.
Exam Board: Eduqas
Paper: Paper 1 English Legal Systems
Length: 1.5 hours
Question Times: 2x 5 markers, 2x 15 mark sources of law (choice) & 2x 10/15 combinations (choice)
This mock paper is designed to be given to students in Year 12 as part of their mocks.
Students should have studied the entire English Legal Systems unit.
It is designed to look and feel like an Eduqas Paper 1 exam.
Question Topics
5 Mark Questions
Precedent
Statutory interpretation
15 Mark Sources of Law
Law Making & Influences
Delegated Legislation
10/15 Mark Combinations
Alternative dispute resolution
Criminal appeals & criminal trial process
I run this quiz every year with my year 12 students and they absolutely love it.
There are six rounds and it takes about an hour to complete. Extra rounds can easily be added or removed depending on the length of the lesson you have to fit it into.
Exam Board: Eduqas
Students will need knowledge of all English Legal Systems topics (except Statutory Interpretation). This should make it suitable for year 12 just before Christmas but it would also suit year 13.
Please check the answers for round 6 before running as it requires up to date knowledge of the Lord Chancellor & Head of Supreme Court and some answers may need changing
The quiz was up to date as of 09/12/22!
Rounds:
Juries
Christmas in the Courts
The Justice System
Precedent
Picture Round
General Legal Knowledge
Exam Board: Eduqas
Paper: Paper 1 English Legal Systems
Question Breakdown
2x 5 markers
2x 15 mark sources of law (choose one)
2x 10/15 mark combinations (choose one)
This is an Eduqas mock exam paper that can be used for either year 12 or year 13 students as part of their mock exams. Students are expected to have covered all of the English Legal Systems content before taking this paper.
The paper is designed to look like an Eduqas exam paper.
Questions
5 Markers
Law Making
Rule of law
15 Mark (Sources of Law)
Statutory Interpretation
Delegated Legislation
10/15 Combinations
Juries (10 mark) & juries (15 mark)
ADR (10 mark) & ADR (15 mark)
This is a bundle of mock papers that make up a full set of A-Level exams.
They are designed to be given to year 13 students after the Christmas of year 2.
Students should be taking the contract law option.
Students are not expected to have finished the contract law module but should have knowledge of formation & privity in order to complete these papers.
Each paper is a full paper in the Eduqas style.
These placemats are a great plenary activity for lessons on consideration.
Students can pick questions to answer for the sheet, have questions allocated or have to answer all of the questions.
There are different colours for each question to help with distinction.
The questions all test different areas of consideration as well as different skills with both evaluation and application style questions.
I use this as part of a DIRT lesson following an evaluation essay on consideration.
Designed for the Eduqas exam board but would suit other exam boards as well.
This activity asks students to research cases on a particular topic and find a case for each of the headings.
This can be useful as a revision activity, as a flipped learning or home learning activity, a homework task or as a starter task when beginning a new topic.
There are two versions of the worksheet, each with different questions. You can split these up amongst the class, give everyone the same one or give everyone a two paged task if you want it to last longer.
I recommend allocating students a topic.
Students then research seven different cases, one for each of the headings. Some may be harder than others depending on the topic!
This requires some knowledge of law and how the legal system works. I would expect students to have studied English Legal Systems before doing it.
Unit: Criminal Law
Exam Board: Eduqas
Paper: Paper 2
This card sort is a quick fire starter for revision sessions at Year 13.
Students are given a set of cards for a particular topic and then have to sort them into the correct structure for the problem (scenario) question.
Although based on Eduqas these are suitable for all exam boards, although you may want to pick out any topics that you do not study.
How I Use These Cards
I put students in pairs/small groups and give them each one topic. Once they have correctly sorted it they can do the next topic. The group with the most complete topics at the end of 3 minutes gets a prize.
Printing Notes
Set your printer to: Print Along Short Edge
This will mean the cards are printed flipped so that the back matches the front! If you do long edge then this won’t work. I recommend doing a test print of pages 1 & 2 first to ensure your formatting is working!
Topic: Bail
Unit: English Legal Systems
Paper: Paper 1
Marks: 10
Exam Board: Eduqas
This is a 10 mark (AO1) question on bail designed to suit the Eduqas exam board. This would also work as an 8 marker from OCR. The question asks students to describe how bail works.
There is also a model plan and a model answer included to help with marking/DIRT work.
Students should be given about 15 minutes to answer if doing the question under timed conditions.
Topic: Criminal Justice System
Unit: English Legal Systems
Marks: 10
Paper: Paper 1
Exam Board: Eduqas
This is a 10 mark practice question on the criminal justice system. This is designed for Eduqas Paper 1 and is one of the 10 mark AO1 style questions. This would also suit an OCR 8 mark question.
Included is a model plan and model answer that can be used to help support students with planning or DIRT or to support you with marking.
Students should be given 15 minutes to answer if doing the question under timed conditions.
Note about Magistrates: this is up to date as of 2023 with the new reduced back to 6 months sentencing powers
Topic: Bail
Unit: English Legal Systems
Paper: Paper 1
Exam Board: Eduqas
This case list is a great supplement to student learning. It can be given to students to be filed away and help with revision or it can be used as a revision activity or resource. Also helpful for teachers when prepping lessons.
Contains a variety of key cases on bail, suitable for English Legal Systems and Criminal essays.
It is based around the Eduqas specification but would also suit other exam boards.
Includes:
Illustration
Case Name
Legal Principle
Topic: Bail
Unit: English Legal Systems
Paper: Paper 1
Question Style: Evaluation
Marks: 12
This is a 12 mark evaluation style question based on OCR Paper 1. The question asks students to evaluate the operation of bail.
Included is a model plan which can be used to help with marking or help students with their own planning.
There is also a model answer which can help with DIRT work.
Topic: Crown Prosecution Service
Marks: 10 Marks
Exam Board: Eduqas
Paper: Paper 1
This is a 10 mark question that asks students to describe the reforms of the Crown Prosecution Service. Students should be given 15 minutes to answer the question.
Included is a model answer and a model plan which can help with DIRT/marking.
This is designed for Eduqas Paper 1 but could easily be modified to suit OCR Paper 1 8 mark questions.