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30 Dec 2025
Examiner AI Update for A-Level Law
There are now 8 question types available to use for A-Level Law on Examiner AI.
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14 Dec 2025
tutor2u Festive Quiz 2025 | A-Level Law
The A-Level tutor2u Festive Quiz for 2025 is here!
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17 Oct 2025
Halloween Law Quiz 2025
Download this spooky adapted version of our popular bubble quiz format - instead the bubbles have been replaced with ghostly apparitions. There are 10 questions on the General Elements of Criminal...
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17 Mar 2025
Are Juryless Trials the Future?
Last year there was much debate on the idea of juryless trials, as Scotland sought to bring them in via a pilot in 2028 for rape cases, after new legislation was timetabled addressing this. After...
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11 Mar 2025
Widening Aggravating and Mitigating Factors
When a defendant is found guilty and sentenced, mitigating factors can be put forward by their legal representative to lessen any sentence and aggravating factors put forward by the Crown...
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8 May 2024
Protesters Unsuccessfully Appeal Conviction under Articles 10 and 11
The case of R v Trowland initially heard in the Summer of 2023 concerned an appeal to the sentence given in April 2023 to two protestors who caused the closure of the M25 motorway after climbing...
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6 May 2024
The Jury - Fit for purpose or do we need to think again?
Trial by jury is often seen as the cornerstone of our criminal legal system but is the jury system fit for purpose? There has been considerable scrutiny of such with the recent Channel 4 programme...
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3 May 2024
Key Legal Updates
Here is a round-up of some of the recent key legal updates relating to Paper 1 Criminal Law and Paper 2 Tort Law…
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1 May 2024
Early Release - The way to solve prison overcrowding?
Overcrowding in prisons has become a major issue of concern recently. The prison population rose by 6,000 last year so that there were over 88,000 serving prisoners by the end of the year, a record...
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29 Apr 2024
Is the independence of the judiciary being sacrificed in the governments latest Rwanda plan?
The independence of the judiciary is key to the justice system. Senior judges are protected by security of tenure so they cannot be dismissed at will, and as was seen in the case of Sirros v Moore...
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29 Apr 2024
Psychiatric Harm Case Update: Paul, Polmear and Purchase (2024)
The law on claims for psychiatric harm has developed over a number of years. Victims are classified as either primary, being within the original zone of danger or secondary, being outside this....
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5 Feb 2024
Should shop workers be protected against assault in a new law?
There have been calls to provide extra protection for shop workers in England and Wales from attacks of violence whilst at work. This would go further than the basic non-fatal offences such as...
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31 Jan 2024
The new 'Intermediate Track' in civil law
From 1 October 2023 there are now four, not three, tracks for cases in the civil courts to be assigned to. At the recommendation of Sir Rupert Jackson the new intermediate track has ben sandwiched...
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15 Dec 2023
Rwanda Plan Deemed Illegal by Supreme Court
The brainchild of former Home Secretary Suella Braverman in an attempt to deal with illegal immigrants entering our shores, first formulated in April 2022, the Rwanda plan would ensure that asylum...
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13 Dec 2023
An overview of Corporate Manslaughter and the case of Lucy Letby
Lucy Letby, the former neonatal nurse was jailed in August for the murder of seven babies and attempted murder of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Now Cheshire Police have decided to...
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11 Dec 2023
2023 Festive Law Quiz
Here is our annual A-Level and BTEC Law festive quiz The quiz consists of 15 questions some on Law content and some on Christmas topics, all with a festive twist. Merry Christmas from everyone here...
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10 Dec 2023
Human Rights Law and Law and Morality – Legal Challenges to save Indi Gregory
Nottingham University Trust made a “best interests” application in October 2023 to the High Court that their treatment to baby Indi Gregory and life support should be removed. She suffers from the...
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20 Nov 2023
Police Officer Charged with Murder
Last month, murder charges were put before a police officer at Westminster Magistrates Court after the death of 24-year-old Chris Kaba, who lost his life on 5 September 2022 in South East London....
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17 Nov 2023
Jade's Law Being Taken Forward by Conservative Government
Announced at the Conservative Party Conference by Justice Secretary Alex Chalk the Victims and Prisoners Bill will be amended to remove parental rights from those convicted of killing the mother or...
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14 Nov 2023
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and its Impact on the Rights to Protest
The right to protest can be seen to be a fundamental right indicative of a fully functioning democracy. However, of late there have been multiple instances where these such protests have majorly...
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