AS Law LA2 feedback 2012

Chief Examiner Professor Iwan Davies

June Series

Question One – European Law and Statutory Interpretation

• Many candidates omitted part (a) completely. General answers only were given with basic definitions.

• In part (b) very few candidates made reference to the purposive approach. There was also a lack of supporting case law in general. Candidates should apply all rules.

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Question Two - Magistrates

• This was a popular question.

• In (a) answers were generally strong.

• In (b) candidates tended to ignore the structured training programme, the use of mentors, training sessions, appraisals and the core and developmental training.

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Question Three – Judicial precedent

• In (a) candidates tended to focus on avoidance techniques in general rather than the Practice Statement

• Part (b) was poorly answered with few candidates citing Young as the leading case.

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Question Four – Delegated legislation

• This was a popular question which was overall well answered.

• Only the strongest candidates used the data to support their evaluation of delegated legislation.

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