SQE1 Prep — The Audio Course

A newspaper says the Supreme Court has struck down an Act of Parliament; your client's licence depends on whether that can be true.

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In this episode:

• Civil courts, the four tracks, and the three High Court divisions
• Offence classification decides the court, and the either-way election is the defendant's
• Supreme Court powers, and why a declaration of incompatibility changes nothing
• Tribunals, judicial independence, and the partial separation of powers
• Who regulates whom, and when to settle out of court

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A Court of Appeal ruling matches your client's case almost exactly, and the one fact that differs is why the judge can decide against him.

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In this episode:

• Vertical and horizontal stare decisis, and which courts bind which
• Ratio binds, obiter persuades, and how to tell them apart
• The Practice Statement 1966 and when the Supreme Court departs
• The three Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co exceptions, per incuriam included
• Overruling, distinguishing, reversing and disapproving, kept apart

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A minister and an Act of Parliament can impose exactly the same speed limit, and only one of them can be destroyed in court.

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In this episode:

• Dicey's three principles, implied repeal, and why entrenchment fails
• Green and White Papers, the five stages, and commencement
• Delegated legislation, the parent Act, and ultra vires in substance or procedure
• Retained EU law became assimilated law, ordinary domestic legislation
• The Human Rights Act ladder, and why a declaration changes nothing

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A trader puts a price ticket on something the law says she must not offer for sale, and whether she is guilty turns entirely on what the word offer already means.

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In this episode:

• Literal, golden, mischief and purposive: what triggers each approach
• Intrinsic and extrinsic aids, and the three Pepper v Hart conditions
• Interpretation Act 1978 defaults and the five rebuttable presumptions
• Ejusdem generis, noscitur a sociis, expressio unius: the rules for lists
• Welsh legislation has its own regime and two texts of equal standing

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A residents' association files inside the three months everyone told them they had, and can still lose the claim before anyone argues the law.

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In this episode:

• Judicial review polices how a decision was made, never what was decided
• Amenability turns on the character of the decision, not the decision-maker
• Promptness is a separate requirement hiding behind the three-month limit
• Four grounds, and proportionality is not a fifth
• Every remedy is discretionary, and s.31(2A) can defeat a winner

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A minister spends three weeks attacking her own government's decision on television, a citizen goes to the High Court, and the court will do nothing at all.

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In this episode:

• Conventions bind politically and are never enforced, even in statutory form
• The Crown is the executive; the monarch acts on ministerial advice
• Prerogative is residual, displaced by statute, and reviewable by subject matter
• Article 9 protects proceedings in Parliament, not everything a member does
• Processions can be conditioned widely and banned; assemblies only three ways

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A price tag in a shop window, cash counted out on the counter, and a shop owner who is still perfectly free to say no.

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In this episode:

• Offers and invitations to treat, and why the line decides everything
• How offers die, and what a counter-offer destroys
• When acceptance takes effect, the postal rule and its limits
• Two presumptions on intention, and how each is rebutted
• Certainty of terms, minors, mental capacity and corporate capacity

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A supplier promises a loyal customer 20 per cent off for a year, then changes its mind, and English law sides with the supplier.

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In this episode:

• Consideration must be sufficient in law, but need not be adequate
• Past consideration fails unless requested on an understanding of payment
• Practical benefit buys extra pay, but never part payment
• Part payment of a debt is no satisfaction of the whole
• Promissory estoppel is a shield, and it suspends rather than destroys

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A nephew is named in an agreement, promised £5,000, and can recover nothing, because of a single line the sisters' solicitor put in.

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In this episode:

• Only parties can enforce; the burden side of privity never moved
• Agency, assignment, collateral contract, trust and tort are the common law routes
• s.1(1)(a) express right, s.1(1)(b) conferred benefit, s.1(2) rebuts it
• Rights crystallise on communicated assent or known reliance, then need consent
• Most commercial contracts exclude the Act, so look for the clause

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A signature binds you to every word you never read, and one question asked at the counter can undo it.

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In this episode:

• Four tests separate a contractual term from a mere representation
• A signature binds you to terms you never read
• Notice must come before contracting, in a genuinely contractual document
• Onerous clauses need a red hand, not ordinary small print
• Collateral contracts are the way round the parol evidence rule

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The law writes terms into your contract that nobody agreed to, and then refuses to let you write them out again.

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In this episode:

• Necessity implies a term in fact; reasonableness never does
• Terms implied in law attach to a type of relationship
• Sale of Goods Act for businesses, Consumer Rights Act for consumers
• Exemption clauses face incorporation, then construction, then statutory validity
• Death or personal injury by negligence can never be excluded

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A crane sits idle for seven weeks, the builder writes ending the hire, and that letter turns out to be the more expensive mistake.

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In this episode:

• Conditions terminate, warranties pay damages, innominate terms depend on the breach
• Sale of Goods Act conditions, and the Consumer Rights Act tiered remedies
• Interpretation is objective, negotiations are excluded, clear words usually win
• Rectification corrects the document, not the bargain it records
• Variation needs consideration, and no oral modification clauses work

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The dealer says one previous owner, the car has had four, and nothing about owners is in the written agreement, which is exactly why the claim works.

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In this episode:

• Fact or opinion turns on who was placed to know
• Silence is safe until a half-truth or a changed circumstance
• Investigating defeats inducement; being able to investigate does not
• Section 2(1) reverses the burden and pays on the fraud measure
• Short of fraud, the rescission clock starts at the contract

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A rogue buys a car with a cheque that bounces and sells it on before anyone notices, and whether your client ever sees it again turns on a single word.

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In this episode:

• Void or voidable decides who keeps the goods
• Common mistake must make performance essentially and radically different
• Identity voids a contract; attributes only make it voidable
• Duress and undue influence are voidable, so affirmation destroys the remedy
• Illegality now turns on a range of factors, not a rigid rule

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A gardener does half the job and walks away, and the law hands him nothing, while a decorator who hangs one strip of wallpaper crooked is paid almost in full.

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In this episode:

• The entire obligations rule and its four escape routes
• Substantial performance turns on the size of the defects
• Repudiatory breach gives an election: terminate or affirm
• Frustration is automatic, narrow, and never self-induced
• The 1943 Act adjusts money paid and benefits conferred

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A caterer walks away three weeks before the wedding, and the one number the couple can recover explains almost everything contract damages do.

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In this episode:

• Expectation is the primary measure; reliance is the fallback, never an addition
• Causation is but for; remoteness is the two limbs of Hadley
• Cost of cure gives way to difference in value when disproportionate
• Mitigation caps recovery, and the defendant carries that burden
• Equitable remedies are discretionary and need damages to be inadequate

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A woman bites into a cereal bar she was given rather than bought, and the law lets her sue a manufacturer she has never dealt with.

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In this episode:

• The neighbour principle, and why no contract is needed
• Caparo's three limbs, and why Robinson stopped you running them
• Omissions, and the four exceptions that create a duty
• Primary and secondary victims, and the Alcock control mechanisms
• When policy shuts duty out, and when it does not

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A driver with thirty years and no accidents judged 35 miles an hour to be a safe speed for him, and the law had already stopped listening.

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In this episode:

• The standard is objective; what the defendant thought safe is irrelevant
• Children and unknown impairment bend it; inexperience and mental illness do not
• Bolam, then Bolitho's logic check, then Montgomery for disclosure of risk
• Weigh likelihood, gravity, cost, social value and common practice
• Res ipsa infers negligence but never shifts the legal burden

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A hospital sends a dying man home without a doctor seeing him, admits it was careless, and still pays nothing.

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In this episode:

• The but-for test, and what to do when it fails
• Remoteness turns on the type of damage, never its extent
• When medical, claimant, third-party or natural acts break the chain
• Material contribution and the narrow asbestos exception
• The eggshell skull rule, and its one real limit

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Proving the defendant caused the harm is not the end of it, because the law still decides which harms count and what they are worth.

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In this episode:

• Only the type of damage must be foreseeable, not its extent
• Primary victims skip the Alcock criteria; secondary victims never do
• A death produces two claims: the dependants' and the estate's
• Special damages are past and provable; general damages are estimated
• The bereavement award reaches a very narrow class of claimant

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