An amazing selection of resources of Law and Religious Studies. Suitable for KS3, KS4 and KS5.
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An amazing selection of resources of Law and Religious Studies. Suitable for KS3, KS4 and KS5.
All our resources are created with love and care, we take pride in ensuring that they are beautiful to look at, because how are we expected to learn if things aren't pretty?
Essay Topic: Criminal Appeals
Specification: Eduqas
Marks: 10
This is a 10 mark Eduqas style essay for the English Legal Systems unit of A-Level law.
Included is a model plan and a model answer.
The model answer can be handed to students and the model plan is very helpful when it comes to marking.
This crib sheet is designed to help students whilst they study delegated legislation.
The sheet can be filled in during class to add more scaffolding to notes, or as a homework activity or, alternatively, it makes a brilliant revision resource.
The sheet has spaces to fill in:
Types of Delegated Legislation
Controls on Delegated Legislation
Substantive ultra vires
Procedural ultra vires
This is designed for the Eduqas A-Level law specification but would suit other exam boards as well.
This crib sheet is designed to help support students in studying statutory interpretation.
This can be used to help students structure notes in class, as a homework activity or as a revision activity.
The sheet has four boxes to fill in information about the four types of statutory interpretation:
Literal Rule
Golden Rule
Mischief Rule
Purposive Approach
The sheet is fun and colourful with images based on some of the key cases for each type of statutory interpretation.
This crib sheet is designed to help students when learning about precedent.
The crib sheet is great to help them structure notes in lessons but is also helpful to support weaker students, as a homework activity or as a revision activity.
The sheet has space to fill in information about:
Types of Precedent
Sources of Persuasive Precedent
Avoidance Techniques
Practice Statement use in Criminal
Practice Statement use in Civil
The worksheet has a fun theme with a picture of a snail, looks awesome in colour but prints fine in black and white.
Designed for the Eduqas curriculum but suits other exam boards as well.
This crib sheet is designed to help students support their learning of law making as part of A-Level Law.
The crib sheet is great to support students in making notes but is also perfect for a revision activity or as homework.
There are boxes to fill in:
Influeces on Law Making
Types of Bills
Dicey’s Theory of Parliamentary Sovereignty
This sheet is designed to help students structure their notes on Law Reform.
It has four boxes to fill in, these are designed to fit the four roles of the Law Commission but you could use them in other ways.
These are great to help students structure their notes during class but are also a helpful homework or revision exercise.
Designed for the Eduqas curriculum but will suit other law exam boards.
This sheet is a great way to help students make more structured notes on Legal Funding & Access to Justice.
It can be used as a homework task, support for weaker students in class or as a revision activity.
It is fun and colourful (although prints in black and white fine)
Features boxes to fill in:
Dicey’s Theory of the Rule of Law
Conditional Fee Agreements
Criminal & Civil Legal Aid Tests
Citizens Advice
This worksheet is designed to help students make notes whilst they are studying tribunals.
Sheet has space for:
Leggatt Recommendations
Peach Gray v Sommers
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
What are tribunals?
This also works great as homework or as a revision activity prior to exams.
This has been designed for the Eduqas exam board but will suit other exam boards as well.
This document is designed to support students in improving their evaluation skills. It is designed for A-Level Law and the Eduqas specification, although parts could easily be adapted for other specifications. It has contract law questions (although again these could be removed and swapped with human rights).
What is included?
What is evaluation?
Ten exercises to improve evaluation
Exercise One: Match Up
This exercise asks students to match up arguments and counter-arguments.
There are five match ups to complete:
Psychiatric Injury
Strict Liability
Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Civil Trial Process
Exercise Two: Disagree
This exercise asks students to give a counter-point to each of the opinions expressed.
Topics include:
Mitigation of Loss
Magistrates
Law Commission
Law Making Process
Juries
Exercise Three: Evaluate
This exercise asks students to clearly explain why each of the viewpoints is incorrect.
Topics include:
Access to Justice
Privity of Contract
Rylands v Fletcher
Delegated Legislation
Bail
Exercise Four: PEEL Template
This exercise asks students to complete a PEEL template for one paragraph of an essay.
Topics include:
Negligence
Tribunals
Contract Remedies
Voluntary Manslaughter
Psychiatric Injury
Exercise Five: Paragraph
This exercise asks students to write one paragraph for each of the essay questions.
Questions include:
Precedent
Misrepresentation
Express Terms
Criminal Appeals
Criminal Causation
Exercise Six: Ranking
This exercise asks students to rank paragraphs from best to worst. There are five paragraphs to rank.
Exercise Seven: Marking
This exercise asks students to read through two answers and give them a mark.
25 Marker: Nuisance
15 Marker: Civil Appeals
A mark scheme is included.
Exercise Eight: Self-Improvement
This exercise asks students to go back over previous 15 & 25 mark answers. They should re-write one and attempt to get a higher mark.
Exercise Nine: 15 Marks
There are five 15 mark practice questions to answer.
Topics:
Statutory Interpretation
Law Making Process
Juries
Legal Professionals
Criminal Trial Process
Exercise Ten: 25 Markers
There are five 25 mark practice questions to answer.
Topics:
Murder
Economic Duress
Rylands v Fletcher
Theft
Formation of Contract
This worksheet is a great resource to help support students making notes on the judiciary.
This is a great well to help students structure their work in class or as homework or revision.
Boxes to fill in are:
Separation of powers
How are judges appointed
Different types of judges
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
Advantages and Disadvantages
This is a bright, colourful sheet that looks great printed in colour but can also print in black and white. It also looks good completed digitally.
This sheet allows students to organise their knowledge on legal professionals for A-Level law.
The sheet has various spaces for them to fill in and is a great task for in class lessons but can also be used as a homework or revision task.
Boxes to complete:
Solicitors
Barristers
Legal Executives
Should the legal professions be merged? Arguments for and against
The sheet looks great printed in colour but also works perfectly well printed in black and white.
It can also be completed digitally.
This elegant poster is a great overview of the Civil Appeals structure.
A great visual aid to use during lessons. It can also be given to students to help give them an overview of the structure of the civil appeals system.
It is A3 size for easy colour printing.
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 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 sheet will allow students to make notes on the most important parts of the law on magistrates.
The sheet can be completed in class as a method of note taking or it can be completed as a homework task. It also makes a great revision activity.
There is space to make notes on:
Stages of training
Advantages/disadvantages
Criminal role
Civil role
Definition
The sheet is bright and colourful and looks great printed or completed digitally but it can also be printed in black and white perfectly fine.
This sheet will help students to organise their knowledge about juries.
This is a good activity to give students during lessons to help structure their notes (I find it is very helpful for weaker students, or those who are bad at note making) or an be given as a homework or revision task.
Contains space to make notes on:
Five key cases
Jury eligibility
Advantages/disadvantages
The key cases are:
Bushell’s Case (1670)
Heathrow Robbery Trial (2010)
ABC Trial (1978)
R v Owen (1991)
R v Ponting (1985)
The sheet is nice and colourful with a pale blue and brown colour scheme and looks great printed in colour or completed digitally but also works fine printed 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 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 is a 66 page booklet that contains six tasks for students to complete over the Summer Holidays between Year 12 and Year 13.
It is designed for Eduqas A-Level Law (you could remove the evaluation question and swap it for a different style question if you wanted it for another exam board).
This is a modified version with a tort law problem question instead of criminal law
Tasks:
Case Sheets
Goals for next year
Glossaries
Find the Connections
Problem Question (25 marker)
Evaluation Question (25 marker)
More information about the tasks is below
Case Sheets
Contains a list of cases from English Legal Systems, Tort and Criminal. These have been selected as the most important cases (the ‘know it or die’) cases from Year 12.
Students have to fill in the facts and legal principle for each case. There are five case boxes per page.
Goals
Students should set five smart goals to help them in Year 13
Glossaries
Split into ELS, Tort and Criminal. Students have to write a definition for each key term they are given. There are 11 terms per page.
Connections
Students are given 20 terms. They have to sort these terms into four groups of five. There is one connections page for ELS, Tort and Criminal. It contains key terms, legislation, cases etc.
Problem Question
The problem question is a 25 marker based on negligence, nuisance and remedies from tort law.
Students have space to answer within the booklet
Evaluation Question
The evaluation question is a 25 marker on murder.
Students have space to answer within the booklet
Updated August 2024
This crib sheet is a great way for students to organise their knowledge relating to the various different theories on sentencing.
Around the central box there are five boxes for the theories under the Sentencing Act 2020, s 57 which can be filled in with key information, evaluation points or case examples.
Nice and colourful, looks great printed in colour but also works in black and white or can be filled in digitally.