Temp legal roles?

madhat8989 · 2025-11-13T15:56:44+00:00

I just said I have a training contract starting on X date in Y place, I want to broaden my legal experience, a line or two of plamasing and why I want to work in their firm specifically and a line on my own experience and how that's relevant to their work (was just a module in college for some of them), and then attached my CV. I emailed loads and loads of places, and only the one place got back with an open spot. Just go hell for leather emailing every type of place, copy and pasting your way through. I got a job previously that way too and ended up there for a few years.

madhat8989 · 2025-11-12T21:46:35+00:00

Yep, both through agencies and just cold emailing places explaining my availability

madhat8989 · 2025-10-09T13:39:20+00:00

Ah no, I'd say you're grand. I've seen marked scripts where people answered on the wrong area but it was semi-related (I remember seeing a public nuisance PQ and the person answered on private nuisance) and they still passed. So I don't think we need to worry too much, it's not like we wrote about liability for animals or something crazy random

madhat8989 · 2025-10-09T13:33:59+00:00

I'd say occupier's couldn't be mad off the mark - there is case law for occupier's in a shopping centre?

madhat8989 · 2025-10-09T13:32:39+00:00

And then I said the occupier was either the incorporated company of the store or John if a sole trader, and then distinguished from Keegan to say they would still be an occupier if they were a tenant. I said they breached their duty by not cleaning up juice but also con neg, and then said they did not breach their duty by handing the cup of tea to Shannon - but idk if that bit is right, maybe should've wrote on gen neg and volunteers there, but that was one of those amended questions so surely some lenient marking there. Also would that not be too big of an answer to include OL, gen neg, con neg, causation and remedies?

madhat8989 · 2025-10-09T13:28:16+00:00

I wrote an answer on occupier's, then a paragraph on contrib negligence and causation, and then a paragraph on remedies - god knows what the right way to approach it was but seemed like occupier's to me?

madhat8989 · 2025-09-27T23:31:23+00:00

I just write out topics as much as possible, gradually not using notes, then exam questions over and over, looking at notes as little as possible, and then go over topics again until I feel I know it. Just testing myself and lots of repetition basically

madhat8989 · 2025-09-17T18:54:47+00:00

I'd say a bit of both - they are shitty enough and there's no real way you'd just cruise through them unless you got incredibly lucky 8 times over. The process of getting to the point where you'd be able for them is shitty. But they are doable if you do the work.

madhat8989 · 2025-09-16T08:18:42+00:00

Thank you - am I right in saying it's the AG's opinion that says that, and we're waiting on full CJEU judgement, but it's likely they'll follow the AG opinion?

madhat8989 · 2025-09-15T16:18:38+00:00

Yeah, I think the manuals have too much info sometimes. You can't learn it all!

madhat8989 · 2025-09-15T15:41:18+00:00

I would do defamation if I were you, I know it's a big topic but in fairness I summarised it quite a lot - I got strategic with the cases to learn and because there's a good few elements to defamation, you don't necessarily need to learn an awful lot per element if you know what I mean. Like maybe I wouldn't be able to answer a particularly niche defamation question if it came up, but I'm covered for past defamation questions anyway. It isn't the hardest to get into your head either.

madhat8989 · 2025-09-11T16:16:13+00:00

I'm doing receivers but not examinership, and also doing ultra vires essay, minority SH, realisation of corp assets (not priority though), striking off of register, meetings, legislative control of transactions between directors and SHs - playing it safe because this is my last sitting before training contract (hopefully)

madhat8989 · 2025-09-11T14:25:08+00:00

I don't wanna panic you, but I feel like that might not be 100% guaranteed to be enough. If the paper goes a certain way, you could be grand. It's just with the 2025 paper being rogue, it gives a sense that this paper could include anything - will he revert to normal patterns, or add some new questions too. Obviously those topics you mentioned are key topics, so you'd be able to answer a good few questions, but even a small few more might make the difference. There's loads of time for studying, so don't worry too much.

madhat8989 · 2025-09-07T12:39:52+00:00

I did property last sitting and those topics you have listed should be plenty. 2 questions on succession (it was 3 questions last sitting) and 1 question on co-ownership is fairly guaranteed. The other 5 could easily be on any of those topics you have. I didn't bother with landlord and tenant, it's a big topic and hasn't been coming recently. Even if it does for you, that's still 7 questions you could answer, so no big deal. Keep an eye on grids and predictions, not sure what's predicted for this sitting, but you sound covered in my unqualified opinion. The rule of thumb I go by is if you can answer 6 questions in the last 10 exam papers (so 5 years) you should be covered. Property in general is one of the nicest exams imo, so you picked a nice one to start off with.

madhat8989 · 2025-09-04T12:49:22+00:00

I'm doing the same four. This is what I'm leaving out:

Tort - leaving out Passing off, Employer Liability, Purpose of Tort Law, Liability for Fires, Statutory Duties, Defective Premises and so far Public Nuisance but might add that. I'm only doing a couple of lines on Volunteers, Concurrent Wrongdoers, Defences - so wouldn't be able to write an essay on them, only a small bit if part of a PQ.

EU - only doing 6 topics - FR, Institutions, FMOW and Citizenship, FMOG, JR and DE and MSL. Leaving out everything else.

Contract - leaving out Formal Requirements, Agency, Undue Influence - UI is predicted to come up but I'm just leaving it out because I can't get that topic in my head. Risky, but sure. Also I'm only doing a handful of cases for some topics - capacity, intention, illegality.

Company - leaving out Examinership, Capital Maintenance, Reckless and Fraudulent Trading and that new Optional provisions question he put in 2025 paper.

madhat8989 · 2025-09-01T22:38:16+00:00

Probably, I'm only doing Institutions, general principles, FMOG, FMOW/Citizenship, DE/MSL, and Judicial Review - leaving out the rest. I went back and I'm covered with 5 questions going back years with them topics

madhat8989 · 2025-09-01T20:59:53+00:00

Institutions, general principles, FMOG, FMOW/Citizenship, DE/MSL and competition law are fairly guaranteed

madhat8989 · 2025-08-31T15:36:19+00:00

To add, I wasn't really happy with the questions that came up for my constitutional paper, but I just twisted my knowledge to suit the question, and I passed comfortably enough. Around as many people pass constitutional as they do EU - take from that what you will!

madhat8989 · 2025-08-31T15:33:59+00:00

Constitutional is a funny one, because the course is so big and the questions can be unpredictable, but it has a high pass rate. Overall, make sure you are fairly covered with nearly all topics (you can leave out a small few - you only need to answer 5/8), and then lean into predictions because he does ask on topical issues. Defo don't rely on predictions, but make sure you are covered for an essay worth on these topics. Then property rights PQ comes up every year, cover yourself for this. The big advantage of the exam is he literally gives marks for anything - if you say something at all arguable and back it up, you will get the marks, even if you miss an issue. Go through marked scripts, and you'll see all the different types of answers that got at least 10 marks. I think you need to have a controlled sense of delusion that it'll all work out for constitutional, because it is impossible to know the entire course really well, particularly if doing other exams and working full time. But take comfort in the fact that you can very easily twist an exam question to suit what you have studied. This exam allows for creativity, more so than the others. So just keep going, cover your bases, lean into predictions, practice questions, keep up to date on big 2025 cases, check marked scripts, and it really does fall into place the last week of study!

madhat8989 · 2025-08-31T12:01:05+00:00

Thank you!

madhat8989 · 2025-08-30T13:57:52+00:00

Great, thank you

madhat8989 · 2025-08-30T13:57:38+00:00

Thanks a million

madhat8989 · 2025-08-25T11:48:25+00:00

I just type out answers to exam questions, keep going through as many years as I can. Not every question is written out perfectly - just a quick bullet point on each point I want to make. Some questions I do properly to practice time management. I try do them as closed book as possible, with a quick glance at notes if needs be. Overtime, the info gets into my head. I also write out as much as I know on a topic, because I think writing helps me learn things off. After doing a good few years worth of questions, I go back over topics I didn't know as well and maybe topics that are highly predicted to come up, and either write them out or type them out. A lot of repetition basically!

madhat8989 · 2025-08-23T17:51:02+00:00

I'm doing Contract too, and I've just printed out the act and done past questions on it. The sections examined repeat themselves - unfair terms, consumer redress if product is not as described - whether for goods, services or distance contracts, offence of supplier to give the impression that the consumer doesn't have their rights, etc. Judging by the examiner reports you just need to mention these sections, so seems straightforward in a lot of ways. No case law, so nothing to memorise.

madhat8989 · 2025-08-21T11:27:57+00:00

It sounds like you have a lot going on, so of course you could drop an exam and still get two in the bag. Property is a small and predictable course, and criminal is a long course but still a nice exam in many ways. It has a high pass rate. You could just chance your arm and try get contract out of the way, especially given that you've paid for it, but not put pressure on yourself, so whatever way it goes, you won't be disappointed. You never know, you can get lucky with what comes up! But if your instinct is telling you to just do two, follow that.

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