Please click here for details of the various 'Learning Skills' and 'Learning Styles' we use.
Please note that only Laws Teachers are able to download 'PowerPoint' files.
Podcasts work better when saved and opened in iTunes
[EO/Diversity issues: ELS1, ELS3, ELS6, - Health issues: ELS4]
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The Legal Profession is part of the G151 examination which will take place in May.
Prior to the delivery of ELS1a students should read and precis Chapter 10 of 'OCR Law for AS' by J Martin. Take your notes to class so they can be checked at the start of the lesson. Useful additional text: Elliott & Quinn 'AS Law for OCR' Chapter 10.
Print off the PDF files and take them to class. Students may also be able to download a Podcast and open in iTunes.
VIDEO Watch the Introduction to Law Video in class ...
ELS1a - The Legal Profession - [PowerPoint] or [PDF Print File]
Virtual Revision - Part 1 of Solicitors & Barristers - education and training ...
ELS1b - Carmen and Pay - News Story for Reading
ELS1c - Proposals for a new framework for work based learning - Read & precis at home
ELS1d - The route to the top and Cherie Blair and Student Fees - Read, précis and discuss
ELS1e - The ILEX route to becoming a solicitor. Read and discuss the ILEX route
ELS1f - Hiring and complaining about a lawyer - Read, précis and discuss
ELS1g - Revising the Legal Profession. - Undertake these questions
ELS1h - A legal problem - A Law Firms Exercise
Virtual Revision - Part 2 of Solicitors & Barristers - organisation, role, and complaints ...
ELS1i - Solicitors/Barristers/CPS and Blue Sky Thinking - Also plan this essay
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E1 - Mini-Mock Examination (to be undertaken in exam conditions - 20 mins)
ELS-M1 'The Legal Profession' - Moodle on line multi-choice test
Learning skills used: R&P, E&R, CT, CP, LD with some basic LA.
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Civil Cases is part of the G151 examination which will take place in May.
Prior to the delivery of ELS2a students should read and precis Chapter 2 (Civil Cases) of 'OCR Law for AS'. Take your notes to class so they can be checked at the start of the lesson. Useful additional text: Elliott & Quinn 'AS Law for OCR' Chapters 1 and 2.
Print off the PDF files and take them to class. Students may also be able to download a Podcast and open in iTunes.
FAST TRACK VIDEO - to be shown in class.
ELS2a - The Court Structure: Civil Cases [PowerPoint] - [PDF Print File]
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ADR is part of the G151 examination which will take place in May.
Prior to the delivery of ELS2b students should read and precis Chapter 3 (ADR) of 'OCR Law for AS'. Take your notes to class so they can be checked at the start of the lesson. Useful additional text: Elliott & Quinn 'AS Law for OCR' Chapter 3.
Print off the PDF files and take them to class. Students may also be able to download a Podcast and open in iTunes.
ELS2b - Alternative Dispute Resolution [Powerpoint] - [PDF Print File]
ELS2c - Mediation (The Legal Executive Sept 2005)
ELS2d - Some Lawyers Love ADR + Mediator near you (Times Online 25th Oct 2005)
ELS2e - Using the courts to claim back bank charges - look through this website
ELS2f - In class do - ADR questions and the ADR activity
ELS2g - ADR - produce in class essay plans to these questions. * Key Skills 3.3 * (Write 2 different types of documents about complex subjects. One piece of writing should be an extended document and include at least one image.)
ELS2h - Examples of the use of ADR - Read and Precis - from 'English Legal System' by Elliott & Quinn (7th edition) pages 542-545.
ELS2i - ADR + Blue Sky Thinking - Also plan this essay
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ELS2 - Mini-Mock Examination - with the student next to you plan an answer
ELS2 - Mini-Mock Examination (To be undertaken in Exam Conditions - 40 mins)
ELS-M7 'Alternative Dispute Resolution' - Moodle on line multi-choice test
Learning skills used: R&P, E&R, CT, CP, LD with some basic LA.
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Funding and provision of services is part of the G151 examination which will take place in May.
Prior to the delivery of ELS3a students should read and precis Chapter 13 of 'OCR Law for AS'. Take your notes to class so they can be checked at the start of the lesson. Useful additional text: Elliott & Quinn 'AS Law for OCR' Chapter 13.
Print off the PDF files and take them to class. Students may also be able to download a Podcast and open in iTunes (wait for the download).
ELS3a - Legal Aid & Advice - [Powerpoint] - [PDF Print File] - [Legal
Funding Podcast]
Virtual Revision - Part 1 of Legal Funding - What you need to know ....
ELS3d - Who gets criminal legal aid and why? - A footballer earning £40,000 a week does.
ELS3e - Legal aid and Surrey Law Society - Read and Precis
ELS3g - Poor face legal aid crisis ... and Solicitors abandoning legal aid
ELS3h - Students to undertake the 'Access to Justice' examination
ELS3i - McLibel pair win Legal Aid ECHR case
ELS3j - Class Activity - Bradley and a Load O' Bricks
Virtual Revision - Part 2 of Legal Funding - Common exam mistakes ....
ELS3k - Obtaining representation and Blue Sky Thinking - Also plan this essay
ELS3l - Obtaining Legal Advice and Blue Sky Thinking - Also plan this essay
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Virtual Revision - Part 3 of Legal Funding - Practice exam questions narrated ....
ELS3 - Mini-Mock Examination (To be undertaken in Exam Conditions - 40 mins)
ELS-M3 Are you a Star? - Do the StarQuiz on 'Legal Funding'
Mock Examination involving a past Examination Paper (to be provided by your Laws Tutor) - plan your answers with the student next to you
Mock Examination - involving a past Examination Paper - to be undertaken in examination conditions.
Learning skills used: R&P, E&R, CT, CP, LD with some basic LA.
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Police Powers is part of the G151 examination which will take place in May.
Prior to the delivery of ELS4a students should read and precis Chapter 4 of 'OCR Law for AS'. Take your notes to class so they can be checked at the start of the lesson. Useful additional text: Elliott & Quinn 'AS Law for OCR' Chapter 4.
Print off the PDF files and take them to class. Students may also be able to download a Podcast and open in iTunes.
Virtual Revision - Part 1 of Police Powers - What needs to be revised ....
ELS4a - Police Powers [PowerPoint] or [PDF Print File] or [PolicePodcast]
ELS4b - Anti-Yob Measures
ELS4c - Police Powers - PC's Smith & Jones
ELS4d - Police Powers - PC Parker
Virtual Revision - Part 2 of Police Powers - Common exam mistakes ....
ELS4e(1) - Stop and Search information + AS8e(2) - Too Much Police Paperwork? + AS8e(3) - Powers of Arrest + AS8e(4) Changes to Powers of Arrest from 1st Jan 2006
ELS4f - Cannabis and powers of arrest - read, precis and discuss
ELS4g - 90-day detention and terrorists - read, precis and discuss
ELS4h - Independent Police Complaints Commission - read, precis and discuss
Virtual Revision - Part 3 of Police Powers - Exam questions narrated ...
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ELS4 - Mini-Mock Examination - with the student next to you plan an answer
ELS4 - Mini-Mock Examination (To be undertaken in Exam Conditions - 40 mins)
ELS-M4 'Police Powers' - Moodle on line multi-choice test
Learning skills used: R&P, E&R, CT, CP, LD with some basic LA.
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Pre-Trial Procedure/Courts is part of the G151 examination which will take place in May.
Prior to the delivery of ELS5a students should read and precis Chapter 5 and 6 of 'OCR Law for AS'. Take your notes to class so they can be checked at the start of the lesson. Useful additional text: Elliott & Quinn 'AS Law for OCR' Chapter 5.
Print off the PDF files and take them to class. Students may also be able to download a Podcast and open in iTunes.
WATCH THE VIDEO - Just Deserts. The role of the CPS - Just Deserts Activity and Questons
ELS5a - Pre-trial procedure: Criminal Cases [PowerPoint] - [PDF Print File] - [CrimCases]
ELS5b - The Criminal Courts - [PowerPoint] or [PdF Print File] -
ELS5c - Criminal Courts and some questions
ELS5d - The changing culture of Youth Courts. - Read, Precis and Discuss
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Prior to the delivery of ELS5d students should read and precis Chapter 7 of 'OCR Law for AS'. Take your notes to class so they can be checked at the start of the lesson. Useful additional text: Elliott & Quinn 'AS Law for OCR' Chapter 6.
Print off the PDF files and take them to class. Students may also be able to download a Podcast and open in iTunes.
ELS5e - Criminal Appeals - Answer these questions
ELS5f - Procedure for Appealing against a sentence of a Magistrates Court
ELS5g - Law by Laptop - Read and precis
ELS5h - The proposed UK Supreme Court - what will it do? Read, Precis and Discuss
ELS5i - The Privy Council - Read, Precis and Discuss
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Mock Examination involving a past Examination Paper (to be provided by your Laws Tutor) - plan your answers with the student next to you
Mock Examination - involving a past Examination Paper - to be undertaken in examination conditions.
ELSS-M5 'Pre-trial Procedure' - Moodle on line multi-choice test
ELS-M9 'Criminal Courts' - Moodle on line multi-choice test
Learning skills used: R&P, E&R, CT, CP, LD with some basic LA.
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Sentencing is part of the G151 examination which will take place in May.
Prior to the delivery of ELS6a students should read and precis Chapter 8 of 'OCR Law for AS'. Take your notes to class so they can be checked at the start of the lesson. Useful additional text: Elliott & Quinn 'AS Law for OCR' Chapters 7 and 8.
Print off the PDF files and take them to class. Students may also be able to download a Podcast and open in iTunes.
ELS6a - Sentencing Presentation [PowerPoint] - [PDF Print File] - [SentencingPodcast]
Virtual Revision - Part 1 of Sentencing - What needs to be revised ....
ELS6b - Prisons are full + A former Home Secretary: Radical thinking could transform prisons
ELS6c - A life sentence - means life? + Judges comments + More Life Sentences
ELS6d - Granny Gray is 93 - and still before the courts
ELS6e - Making Criminals Pay - The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
ELS6f - Prisoners granted the right to vote - read, precis and discuss.
ELS6g - Soft on sex crime and the causes of sex crime - read, precis and discuss.
ELS6h - Fears over 'instant justice' - read, precis and discuss.
ELS6i - "Custody is not effective in preventing crime ..." - say the Youth Justice Board) + Lib Dems - "Prison does not work." - read, precis and discuss.
Virtual Revision - Part 2 of Sentencing - Common exam mistakes ....
ELS6j - Sentencing + Blue Sky Thinking - Plan this essay
ELS6k - Useful Sentencing Links & Overcrowded prisons
ELS6l - Muggers to be given £100 on the spot fines?
ELS6m - Gun and knife crime sentencing - 5 years minimum for possesssing a gun Is this a good idea? Additional Material - Young Offenders + Families Views + A Police reprimand in Surrey
Virtual Revision - Part 3 of Sentencing - Exam questions narrated ....
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ELSS-M6 'Sentencing' - Moodle on line multi-choice test
Learning skills used: R&P, E&R, CT, CP, LD with some basic LA.
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During the first week of revision there will be Key Skills opportunities ...
* The Key Skills exercises are optional since students can undertake these exercises in other subject or tutorial lessons. Please advise your teacher - before the lesson starts - if you wish to do a key skills exercise (see your Personal Tutor for a Key Skills form). *
ELSR1 - * Key Skills 3.1b * (Make a presentation about a complex subject (using at least one image to illustrate complex points). Your presentation could be about: The advantages and disadvantages of Juries/Magistrates/ADR etc. It could explain Police Powers and/or different methods of sentencing. You need a key skills form and you need to agree the presentation topic with your Laws Teacher before delivery.
ELSR2 - Visit www.cjsonline.org - Read and precis this website, handing your notes to the Tutor * Key Skills 3.2 *(Read and synthesis information from two extended documents about a complex subject. One of the documents should include at least one image to illustrate complex points.)
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(1) Work in pairs (to be selected by the Laws teacher): From the EssayBank select two 'English Legal System' examination questions and produce a detailed written plan and answer for each question. Then, as a team, explain your plan and read your written answer to the entire class.
(2) Practice planning and then writing past 'English Legal System' examination questions.
(3) Undertake a number of 'mini mock' examinations.
Some 'Virtual Revision Masterclasses' materials may be used by the Laws teacher to aid this area.