On my waaaaaaaaaaayyyy

I am proud to report that I did finish Public Law in time. Hooray!!!! I am way into Contract law looking at terms and regulation of terms; vitiating elements, discharge and remedies for breach. Not bad, right? I just need to concretize my cases and I will be good to go.

Am about to start another bout of studying so I will catch you readers later. Amazing that people read this blog. I have received e-mails for study tips and so on. Nice to know that people are reading.

Thanks to all my faithful readers who stick and stay. Keep your fingers crossed.

Slushing about

I am humbled at how quickly time passes. It was just only "yesterday" when I was inspired to start a blog for my sojourn through law. I cannot believe that in 2 months I will be sweating beads of cold water as I sit and try to earn my degree. Hmmmm.

So what have I been up to? My relationship with my boyfriend now ex is indication enough of that area but on the bright side I landed my dream job so yippee for me. I have been working to meet my deadlines to ensure that when revision gets here fully I am not stuck in the learning mode but I would have been actively preparing for exams.

I have lain criminal law to rest while I work on public law which I plan (keeping all fingers crossed) to complete by the end of this month. YES I do realize that it is only a few days away. I guess I better keep the toes crossed too. At this point in time, all prayers are welcome, really welcome.

Ciao

Scalia's scalding remarks

I have not been fortunate enough to have listened to the podcast on BBC Radio 4 where US Justice Antonin Scalia made some quite unorthodox remarks about torture and evidence gained through such means. I was fortunate however to catch a snippet of one of the controversial statements and the tone alone was surprising. At least someone is honest. Most of us think it, don't we. If national security is at risk, Machiavelli rages his justificatory head...the ends justify the means so what's losing a finger to save a building of people?

Update Crim

It's been a month since my last post. I prefer not to write unless I have something of substance, at least in my L1 estimation to say. So I have been nervously trying to finish Crim Law so that I can move on before the bombshell called exams drop.

The last time I checked in, I was reading Fraud, since then I have covered simple and aggravated non fatal offences, sexual offences and I am now moving on to defences. Homicide has been visited and REvisited so I need some REvision before I can RElax.So off I go to read defences. Stay tuned.

Lying Equals Fraud

And no Act would be "court" worthy if it were not highly criticised and so the Fraud Act is 'somebody". The critics are out and the Fraud Act has been spiked for criminalising lying. With the increased importance placed on the value of honesty transforming what would seem to be legal acts under the civil law into criminal culpable acts, it seems as if criminalising lying is the trend. But how bad is this?

What are the implications for businessmen who embellish to make a profit or Robin Hood fanatics? Is it better to grab all with the blanket or should we take time to carefully weed out the "true' culprits?

Theft Act..A Regular Dog's Breakfast?

So I have just finished the area on Theft pursuant to the Theft Act 1968 and of course I have been introduced to the controversy surrounding the definition of some of the key elements found in s 1(1) of the 1968 Act. After having dutifully read my cases, well the analysis of the cases, I have come to the conclusion that I need to read some journal articles dealing with the topic to gain a betetr insight. But oh, what a flurry of worries have I now opened because every Tom, Dick and Harry believes that he/she possesses the remedy for the deficiencies found in the act. One journal I read refer to the Act as "execrable", s 6 dealing with 'intention to permanently deprive' was cast off as 'regular dog's breakfast'.

"Regular dog's breakfast" is that a colloquial expression? I thought, wow, these critics are harsh. Hmm, if this saying has an established meaning in England, I would be delighted to hear it. For I, myself thought it to mean of such poor quality.

And so I am on to Fraud and I am ashamed to confess that I have not reviewed criminal damage but I have my finger on it, somewhat. So off to work I go until next time.

Criminal Damage and case reading

Just completed my subject guide on Criminal Damage and I would be proud of myself if I hadn't taken over 8 hours on the shortest topic in the guide. Maybe I am being too harsh on myself. But at least I finished in a day, right? I guess.

And I have discovered that I shall no longer read any cases, I shall read only analysis of cases as found on certain databases which I now consider my closest friends. This should be a difficult one since I love to read it all but time and yawns forbade me from continuing that dreadful pattern. It stems from my inability to prioritise cases and so each is as important as the next. But no more!

We shall see tomorrow when I put my head to the test by practicing to write an examination question on the topic. I shall keep you abreast. As is expected I am tired now and need some pep especially as I have a busy day tomorrow.

Exams are drawing closer, in fact, preliminary timetables are up. OOOOO I feel chills, No seriously I do feel chills. I guess I am a wee bit nervous but we shall see when May/June gets here.

Toodles and stay tuned