Letters to a Law Student: A guide to studying law at university

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It is packed full of practical advice and helpful answers to the most common questions about studying law at university across every stage of taking, or thinking about taking, a law degree. Although the introduction that you get to substantive law in your classes is essential in the short run, what is really important is the introduction and indoctrination that you get in legal thinking. You will come to law school expecting the faculty to be the most important part of the education experience. The first of the Secret Barrister books neatly depicts how the Law in the UK is broken, highlighting issues within the Magistrate’s Court such as the lack of diversity on the Bench and its implications, to the problem with a deflating legal aid budget and the consequences on people's access to justice.

Filled with passion, McBride defends the importance of studying Law as a pure subject when considering pursuing a legal career a career, against those who advocate a Law conversion course. There are other issues (such as transportation and accommodation) that we might be able to delegate to a few members of our party – and they will work those issues out together and report back to us. Letters to a Law Student relays all that a prospective law student needs to know before embarking on their studies.For example, in R (on the application of Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice (2012), a man who was completely paralysed and wished no longer to live sought a declaration from the courts that it would be lawful for a doctor to kill him. Sometimes, we get into discussions about the applicability of the rule that squarely involve these kinds of social and moral issues. Interestingly, he explains how studying law ‘is very much like flying a helicopter’ , how ‘reading cases is a bit like riding a bike ’ and teaches readers about the sources of English law by telling us to ‘imagine…standing on a riverbank, watching the river flow by. If all the elements of the rule are satisfied, then the standard has been met, and the client is entitled to relief, or subject to action under that rule. No man can set his foot upon my ground without my license, but he is liable to an action … If he admits the fact, he is bound to show by way of justification, that some positive law has empowered or excused him.

If you participated in class discussions, it may have been by offering your opinion about a text or issue.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Nevertheless, this system is oddly effective at producing the product that the legal profession demands. They will catch you when you skip a necessary step, or misinterpret the impact of a fact, and you will do the same for them. Suppose further that your clients, the Stanleys, have assets that, at fair market value, exceed their debts.

You can also submit your own questions to 'Dear Nick' and read the author's responses to other student letters. But you are learning lots of things at the same time: the language of law, the substantive law (legal rules) in many different areas, and how to be a good anthropologist and archaeologist. Your classmates will be watching you and evaluating not only your intelligence, but your honesty and professionalism. For those looking for a helping hand with their law studies, TSL has assembled a directory of the best private law tutors in the country.

Although this book is little under 400 pages, it is a slow and careful read due to all the critical information you get through every page (I advise you to highlight/take notes in the book).