Law, Legal Theory, and Sources of Law
What is the difference between law and quasi-law?
What is law is formally recognized and enforceable by the state, whereas quasi-law consists of rules such as moral, religious, and societal rules, which may have sanctions but cannot take away liberty?
What is the difference between the House of Commons and the House of Lords in terms of membership?
What is the common consists of elected members of parliament, while the Lords consists mainly of appointed life peers, alongside other members such as the remaining hereditary peers and bishops?
What are the four main rules/approaches used in statutory interpretation?
What is the literal rule, the golden rule, the mischief rule, and the purposive approach?
What are the three common-law changing mechanisms?
What is legislation (primary and secondary), case law, referenda?
What did the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 achieve?
What is the 1911 Act removed the House of Lords’ veto over most primary legislation, and the 1949 act reduced the delay from two years to one year?
What are the three main forms of words judges use when interpreting statutes - try and use its latin terms?
What is ejusdem generis (same type), expressio unius est exclusio alterius (express mention), and noscitory a sociis (a word known by the company it keeps)?
What are the four schools of law?
What is natural law (a higher form of law that transcend the law of man), legal positivism (law needs recognition in order to be law), legal realism (law determined through application), and critical legal studies (comments on the failings)?
What did the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 change?
What is the creation of the UK Supreme Court replacing the Appellate Committtee of the House of Lords, and reforming the role of the Lord Chancellor?
What are the two types of aids used in statutory interpretation - provide examples of each?
What is intrinsic aids (long titles of Acts, short titles of acts, preamble of older acts, and marginal notes) and extrinsic aids (dictionaries, hansard, intepretation act 1978, statutes in pari material, explanatory notes, law commission reports)?
What is defined by territorial extent & application?
What is legal jurisdictions where an act forms part of the law (extent), and an area where an Act has practical legal effect (application)?
What are the three types of nature of the bill and two types of origin of the bill?
What is public bill, private bill, hybrid bill (nature), and what is government and private member bill (origin)?
What are the reasons for statutory interpretation?
What is multiple meanings, flexible drafting, poor grading, policy into law, parliamentary processes, unforeseen situations, and natural/legal meaning?
What are the main domestic legal sources of UK Law?
What is legislation, common law, and equity?
What is the legislative process and all its components?
What is drafting of a bill (consultation, speech from throne, drafting of bills), the House of Commons (1st reading, 2nd reading, committee stage, report stage, 3rd reading), House of Lords (1st reading, 2nd reading, committee stage, report stage, 3rd reading), Royal Assent?
What are the three branches of the UK judiciary system?
What are the inferior courts, senior courts, and the apex/unclassified court?