Introducing "Law Sessions with Jennifer Housen," the podcast that demystifies English Common Law for LLB and GDL students. Building upon her acclaimed YouTube series, Jennifer Housen delivers comprehensive legal lectures in a clear and accessible manner. Each episode breaks down complex legal principles, covering topics such as Contract Law, Public Law, Tort Law, and Land Law, making them easy to understand and apply. Whether you're a law student seeking to reinforce your studies or a legal ...
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Watten House Cando Is Upcoming Freehold Devlopment Located At Sheelford Road At The Prime Bukit Timah Distric. The Condominium will be developed by one of sinapore’s most sought after devlopers. UOL and their partner Singland. The Prime Location of the condo provides residents with convenient access to transportation and various amenities nearly. Watten House is Definitely a Great place to live in.
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MedEdTalk strives to discuss topics with researchers, educators and students within Medical Education and Health Profession Education. Together we can share experience and learn from our discussions. The podcast is hosted by Teresa Sörö, Strategic Education Developer at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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🔒 Navigating the Judicial Route in Adverse Possession: A Comprehensive Guide
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7:44Subscriber-only episode We continue our exploration of land law adverse possession, focusing on the judicial route in registered land cases and the critical two-year window proprietors have to enforce judgments before losing their rights. • Proprietors can bring matters to head by evicting claimants or beginning judicial proceedings • After 10 year…
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🔒 Mastering Land Law Questions: A Strategic Approach to Examination Excellence
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16:56Subscriber-only episode Land Law examination success requires understanding the disconnect between what examiners ask and what students actually answer, along with developing effective time management strategies. The session provides practical approaches to structuring essay and problem questions while avoiding common pitfalls that prevent even kno…
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🔒 How to Answer Land Law Exam Questions About Easements and Property Rights
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11:39Subscriber-only episode We break down how to approach Land Law exam questions, focusing on easements as a practical example through detailed analysis of a 2007 University of London LLB exam question. • Drawing out the scenario is vital for easement and adverse possession questions • Use a three-step approach: identify the right/interest, determine …
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🔒 Breaking Down Leases vs. Licenses: Your Guide to Acing Land Law Exams
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13:37Subscriber-only episode Land law exam success depends on recognizing what's being asked and responding appropriately, whether it's an essay or problem question about leases and licenses. • Essay questions require focused analysis of the specific point raised, not general knowledge dumps • Street and Mountford established exclusive possession for a …
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🔒 Mastering Co-ownership Exam Questions: A Legal Breakdown
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11:27Subscriber-only episode This session completes our examination preparation series by breaking down how to tackle co-ownership questions, specifically focusing on a severance question from the 2009 University of London LLB examination paper. We provide a step-by-step approach to structuring answers chronologically and maintaining focus on the specif…
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🔒 Decoding Property Mortgages: Historical Context to Modern Practice
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14:25Subscriber-only episode Mortgages represent one of the more accessible topics in land law, despite fundamental misconceptions about how they legally operate and the historical changes in property ownership they've undergone. • Mortgages are not given by banks—borrowers give mortgages to banks as security for loans • The mortgagee (lender/bank) rece…
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🔒 Understanding the Evolution of Mortgage Law: From Pre-1925 to Modern Practice
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16:00Subscriber-only episode The Law of Property Act 1925 revolutionised the mortgage system, shifting ownership from lenders to borrowers while ensuring lenders maintain security through legal charges against properties. • Legal mortgages can be created through two methods: a demise for a term of years or a charge by deed • For freehold land, mortgagor…
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🔒 When Mortgages Go Wrong: Understanding Clogs, Fetters, and Redemption Rights
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15:57Subscriber-only episode Mortgage law balances protecting borrowers from unfair restrictions while giving lenders security for their advances through established principles around the equity of redemption. • Courts strike down unconscionable terms like excessive interest rates shown in City Land Properties (57% interest rate) • The test for unconsci…
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🔒 Mortgages Unwrapped: Understanding the Rights and Duties of Mortgagees
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20:09Subscriber-only episode Mortgage law gives enormous power to lenders, yet this power is balanced by legal duties and the mortgagor's rights to relief in certain circumstances. • Mortgagees have a duty to get the best price when exercising power of sale • Mortgagors remain liable for any shortfall for up to 12 years • Sale proceeds must be distribut…
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🔒 Squatter's Rights: The Legal Path to Ownership
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17:45Subscriber-only episode We explore adverse possession, commonly known as "squatter's rights," examining how possessing land for a certain period can legally transfer ownership from paper owners to squatters under English land law. • Possession gives a proprietary right to land, supporting the maxim "possession is nine-tenths of the law" • Adverse p…
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🔒 Intention to Possess: The Legal Battleground of Property Rights
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16:52Subscriber-only episode We continue our exploration of adverse possession in land law, focusing on the crucial element of intention to possess and examining how it applies in both registered and unregistered land contexts. • Intention to possess is similar to the intention required to sever a joint tenancy – it concerns the present moment, not futu…
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🔒 Adverse Possession: Navigating Unregistered vs Registered Land
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17:11Subscriber-only episode Adverse possession operates differently in unregistered versus registered land, with specific conditions creating complexities around disability, successive interests, and limitation periods. This episode explores the legal frameworks governing how adverse possessors can acquire title under both systems, examining the signif…
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🔒 Navigating the Complexities of Landlord-Tenant Covenants in Property Law
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16:33Subscriber-only episode Land law leasehold covenants involve complex rules regarding assignment, subletting, repairs, and who remains liable throughout the lease term. We examine the critical differences between absolute and qualified covenants and explore the watershed distinction between leases granted before and after January 1996. • If a lease …
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🔒 Navigating the Complexities of Freehold Covenant Burdens in Land Law
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11:32Subscriber-only episode The burden of a freehold covenant cannot run with the land at common law, but various legal mechanisms exist to circumvent this limitation. Equity stepped in through the case of Tulk v Moxhay to allow restrictive covenants to bind subsequent landowners, provided specific conditions are met. • Common law provides two main way…
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🔒 Understanding How Covenant Benefits and Burdens Transfer in Property Law
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17:24Subscriber-only episode Freehold covenants create enduring legal promises attached to land that persist through changes in ownership, with this episode explaining how these covenant benefits transfer between parties and attach to land. • Three ways covenant benefits can pass personally: Section 56 of Law of Property Act, Contract Rights of Third Pa…
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🔒 Navigating Freehold Covenants: The Legal Maze Explained
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14:01Subscriber-only episode We continue our exploration of freehold covenants, examining the critical distinction between positive and negative covenants and how these legal promises affect land ownership. This lecture delves into the complex mechanisms that allow covenant benefits and burdens to transfer to subsequent landowners. • Positive covenants …
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🔒 Navigating the Complexities of Promises Between Land Owners
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15:30Subscriber-only episode We explore freehold covenants, which are promises made between freeholders of land regarding how they use their property. These agreements often arise when someone sells part of their land but wishes to restrict how it can be used by subsequent owners. • Freehold covenants can pass to subsequent owners despite no contractual…
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🔒 Property Law Demystified: Understanding Landlord-Tenant Relationships After 1996
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21:10Subscriber-only episode We continue exploring the intricate relationship between landlords, tenants, assignees, and sublessees, before examining how the 1995 Landlord-Tenant Covenants Act revolutionized leasehold liability. • Understanding privity of contract and privity of estate between different parties in a lease arrangement • Explaining why th…
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🔒 Navigating the Complex Web of Landlord-Tenant Legal Relationships
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14:55Subscriber-only episode We dive deep into the complex legal relationships between landlords and tenants, focusing on what happens when either party sells or assigns their interest to someone else. • Visual representation of landlord-tenant relationships using an "L" shape helps understand the legal connections • Privity of contract remains between …
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🔒 The Essential Legal Distinction Between Leases and Licenses in Property Law
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19:46Subscriber-only episode We explore the crucial distinction between leases and licenses in land law, focusing on what legally constitutes a lease according to statutory definitions and landmark case law. • A lease is defined as an estate in land of defined duration under the Law of Property Act 1925 • Three essential characteristics of a lease: excl…
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🔒 Navigating the Fine Lines: Leases vs Licenses
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17:00Subscriber-only episode The complex legal distinctions between leases and licenses hinge primarily on exclusive possession, with important exceptions for family arrangements, charitable acts, and work accommodations that prevent a lease from forming despite exclusive occupation. • Exclusive possession generally indicates a lease, but exceptions exi…
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🔒 Mastering Lease Creation in Land Law
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17:55Subscriber-only episode We explore the methods of creating leases under Land law, examining legal and equitable interests, protection mechanisms, and the landmark Walsh and Lonsdale principle that equalizes certain lease agreements. • Three ways to create a lease: by deed (legal), under Section 54.2 LPA 1925 (legal), or under Section 2 LPMPA 1989 (…
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🔒 Understanding Landlord and Tenant Obligations: A Comprehensive Guide to Leasehold Covenants
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17:20Subscriber-only episode Leasehold covenants define the obligations between landlords and tenants in a lease agreement and provide a straightforward framework for understanding both parties' rights and duties. • Covenants and conditions are the obligations of parties in a lease agreement • Implied covenants exist even without express provisions in t…
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🔒 Understanding Property Rights: Navigating the Complex World of Leases and Licenses
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15:10Subscriber-only episode We explore the critical legal distinctions between leases and licenses, explaining how these differences affect property rights, revocability, and third-party enforcement. This foundational knowledge is essential for understanding landlord-tenant relationships and property occupation rights. • Licenses defined as mere permis…
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🔒 Navigating the Legal Landscape of Easements in Property Law
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12:12Subscriber-only episode We explore the essential elements of easements in land law, focusing on their definition, creation, and protection. Following a structured approach to easement questions is crucial for understanding this somewhat esoteric but practically important area of property law. • An easement is a right to use someone else's land for …
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🔒 Acquiring Easements Through Statute and Prescription: A Comprehensive Guide
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14:39Subscriber-only episode We explore the final segment of Land Law Easements, focusing on additional methods of acquiring easements and how to protect these rights once established. Legal distinctions between Section 62 of the Law of Property Act and Wheeler and Burroughs principles form the cornerstone of this complex but crucial area of property la…
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🔒 Decoding Land Law: Understanding Implied Easements and Their Creation
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13:01Subscriber-only episode In this third part of our Land Law Easements series, we explore ways easements may be created by implication rather than express agreement. We examine how courts imply these rights based on circumstances even when parties haven't expressly declared them in legal documents. • Implied easements are read back into deeds when co…
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🔒 How Property Rights Are Created and Reserved Through Easements
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12:17Subscriber-only episode We continue our four-part Land Law series on easements with a detailed exploration of Rail Edinburgh Park requirements and how easements are created or acquired. • Easements must show sufficient similarity to existing easements - you cannot create entirely new types • Rights must not totally exclude the servient owner from u…
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🔒 Co-Ownership in Land Law: Understanding Joint Tenancy and Severance
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11:23Subscriber-only episode We explore the legal concept of co-ownership in land law with a specific focus on severance of joint tenancies. This lecture examines how joint tenancy operates, its four essential unities, and the significant implications of the right of survivorship. • Co-ownership exists when two or more people hold an interest concurrent…
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🔒 Understanding Joint Tenancy vs. Tenancy in Common in Property Law
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12:13Subscriber-only episode This deep dive into property co-ownership explores the crucial differences between joint tenancy and tenancy in common, with a focus on the process of severance. We clarify the legal complexities and equitable principles that determine how co-owners' property rights are protected and transferred. • Joint tenancy requires fou…
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🔒 Severance of Co-ownership: Legal Pathways to Property Independence
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14:46Subscriber-only episode We explore severance of joint tenancies in property co-ownership, focusing on when equity automatically assumes a tenancy in common and the methods by which severance can be effected. • Equity automatically assumes a tenancy in common in commercial situations where parties are business partners (Lake v Craddock) • Individual…
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🔒 Breaking the Joint Tenancy: Understanding Legal Severance Mechanisms
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17:28Subscriber-only episode Severance of joint tenancy transforms co-ownership rights fundamentally, allowing property shares to be passed through wills rather than automatically transferring to surviving owners. • Mutual agreement between all joint tenants can sever without written documentation • The Burgess v Rownsley case established intention matt…
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🔒 Constructive Trusts in Property Law: Understanding Express and Implied Agreements
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18:38Subscriber-only episode The constructive trust offers an alternative claim to resulting trusts in property disputes, often providing a greater share based on the parties' intentions rather than strict financial contributions. • Constructive trusts arise from either express or implied agreements between parties • Express agreement constructive trust…
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🔒 Navigating Constructive Trusts in UK Property Law: Implied Agreements and Equitable Interests
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18:38Subscriber-only episode The third segment in our Land Law series delves into constructive trusts as they apply to matrimonial homes, examining how courts determine beneficial interests when express declarations are absent. • Constructive trusts require either express or implied agreements about beneficial interest • Detrimental reliance must be pro…
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🔒 The Complex World of Trust Law in Matrimonial Homes: A Comprehensive Guide
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8:29Subscriber-only episode We explore the complex world of co-ownership in land law, focusing particularly on trusts relating to matrimonial homes and the various ways beneficial interests can arise and be determined. • Co-ownership exists whenever the legal estate is vested in two or more persons, with a maximum of four legal co-owners possible • Leg…
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🔒 Navigating the Complex World of Co-ownership and Property Trusts
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17:25Subscriber-only episode Trusts in co-ownership can arise when one unmarried partner contributes to a property legally owned by the other, or when partners buy property together without an express declaration of beneficial interest. • Resulting trusts arise when one person buys property in another's name, with the law presuming the beneficial intere…
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🔒 Navigating Land Law's Final Frontier
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22:56Subscriber-only episode Schedule 3 of the Land Registration Act forms the backbone of land law examinations, detailing interests that override registered dispositions and bind purchasers even without their knowledge. • Three categories under Schedule 3 that override registered dispositions: legal leases granted for seven years or less, interests of…
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🔒 Land Law Decoded: Navigating Registered vs Unregistered Land
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14:51Subscriber-only episode The third part of our Land Law Sessions explores the transition from unregistered to registered land, focusing on how the Land Registration Act 2002 revolutionized property conveyancing in the UK and simplified the process of transferring land ownership. • Compulsory registration system ensures unregistered land enters the r…
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🔒 Navigating the Complexities of Registered vs. Unregistered Land in UK Property Law
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16:59Subscriber-only episode We explore the complex differences between registered and unregistered land in UK property law, focusing on the Land Charges Act 1972 and how various interests affect subsequent purchasers. • Land Charges Act 1972 creates five registers of encumbrances, the only register relevant to unregistered land • Key classes of land ch…
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🔒 Unraveling the Foundations of English Land Law: From Norman Conquest to Modern Estates
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8:33Subscriber-only episode Professor Jennifer Howson introduces Land Law by explaining its foundations and importance as a gateway to understanding other legal subjects like trusts and company law. The lecture provides an accessible entry point to a subject often perceived as dry but which offers rich insights into legal principles across multiple dom…
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Subscriber-only episode We continue our exploration of Land Law by examining the two estates capable of existing at law: freehold and leasehold. These estates represent the closest thing to land ownership available in England and Wales, though technically nobody truly "owns" land—they own an estate in the property. • Freehold estate means there's n…
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🔒 Navigating the Grey Areas: When Is It Actually an Offer in Contract Law?
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19:18Subscriber-only episode This segment explores the subtle but critical distinctions between offers and other legal situations that might appear similar but have very different legal consequences. • Advertisements generally constitute invitations to treat rather than offers, as established in Partridge v Crittenden • The Carbolic Smokeball case (1893…
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🔒 Understanding Legal vs. Equitable Interests in Property Law
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15:22Subscriber-only episode We conclude our four-part introduction to Land Law by exploring the critical distinction between legal and equitable interests in property and examining the foundational concept of trusts. This segment provides essential knowledge about property ownership classifications that underpin the rest of the lecture series and prepa…
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🔒 Land Law Foundations: Navigating Registered vs Unregistered Land
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16:19Subscriber-only episode Land law hinges on understanding the critical distinction between registered and unregistered land, a concept that frustrates many law students yet forms the foundation for answering exam questions effectively. • Approach land law questions by identifying the right, determining if it's legal or equitable, and establishing wh…
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Subscriber-only episode In this final segment on contract law exam preparation, we focus on tackling essay questions effectively, using a 2010 University of London exam question about mistake as our example. Mastering these techniques will help you transform your legal knowledge into focused, analytical responses that directly address what examiner…
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🔒 Contract Law: Mastering Misrepresentation Questions
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12:02Subscriber-only episode We explore how to effectively tackle contract law exam questions on misrepresentation by analyzing a 2011 University of London past exam question focused on Harry's sale of a guitar and car. • Identifying the core task - advising Harry about his liability rather than writing a descriptive treatise • Distinguishing between wa…
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🔒 The Art of Navigating Contract Law Questions: A Strategic Analysis
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11:38Subscriber-only episode We break down the essential strategies for tackling contract formation questions on law exams, using a 2011 University of London LLB exam question as our practical example. • Always determine the status of each communication yourself rather than accepting the examiner's characterization • Analyze the chronology of events sta…
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🔒 Acing Law Examinations: Strategies for Contract Law Questions
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17:38Subscriber-only episode Understanding the disconnect between what law examiners ask and what students actually answer is crucial for exam success in contract law. Jennifer Howison draws on her extensive experience preparing hundreds of students for law examinations to reveal why many students fail despite feeling confident. • Two primary criticisms…
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🔒 When Contracts Break: Understanding Your Legal Options for Recovery
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18:46Subscriber-only episode Contract law's remedies provide the final piece in understanding how legal agreements function when disputes arise, with courts balancing compensation against fairness while respecting the parties' intentions. • Penalty clauses are unenforceable while liquidated damages representing genuine pre-estimates of loss are upheld •…
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🔒 Breaking the Chain: Understanding Remoteness in Contract Law
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13:04Subscriber-only episode We examine the methods that limit damages in contract law, focusing on three critical approaches: remoteness rules, causation rules, and mitigation requirements. These principles establish boundaries for what damages are recoverable when contracts are breached. • Loss must be caused by the breach (causation), illustrated by …
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