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Uni Stuff => Faculties => Law => Topic started by: lynt.br on February 27, 2011, 11:55:24 pm
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I have uploaded some of the exam notes I used throughout my law degree.
These notes were prepared for personal use and are generally high-level summaries of each subject for exam purposes. You should not rely on them as accurate or current statements of the law, and the content for some notes may be outdated. I prepared these notes as part of the Monash undergraduate LLB course so the content may not reflect the syllabuses at other universities. These notes are no substitute for learning the course yourself.
It should go without saying but no part of these notes should be plagiarised as part of any university assessment. I have provided them purely so that they may help others with their own studies and exam preparations.
Unfortunately I do not have notes for Contract A, Contract B, Property A and Equity as these subjects had closed-book exams when I studied them. Also be aware my administrative law notes make reference to specific legislation we were provided for the purpose of that semester's exam.
Others are free to share their own exam resources although I take no responsibility for what is posted. Please do *not* post any university assignments/answers.
Due to size restrictions in uploading files on these forums, I have uploaded my notes here.
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One more for contracts
I may also put up some of my prac exam answers or assignments later on if people are interested...
You are legen - WAIT FOR IT - DARY!
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Thanks for the notes :)
How did you end up going in contracts and ILR, lynt.br?
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Thanks for the notes and the tips!
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I'm kind of a new member. But can I just say lynt.br your court report sample in particular has been extremely useful in trying to figure out the haze that is Monash Law.
Seriously, my undying gratitude.
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Here is my contract A assignment after some slight editing to remove student ID and other stuff. I think it got 17/20 or something like that. Learn from my mistake and actually put footnote citations in (I didn't realise we had to put footnote citations in, that was the bulk of my lost marks).
Also I made a slight error when talking about intention to enter into contractual obligations. I talk about presumptions of intention relating to contracts formed in social and commercial contexts. This has been overruled. I think the latest case is called Ermogenous or something like that.... the one involving the priest. It is now incorrect to say there is a presumption of no intention to form legal relations in contracts formed in a domestic setting. It is more accurate to say there is no presumption of intention (confusing I know, don't worry about it now).
You didn't have to use the AGLC for that assignment? Weird.
I'm not quite sure about the second part. They've effectively scrapped the presumption of intention in domestic agreements? I think for that particular case, it was decided that the presumption was not to be used because of the nature of the claim. Justice Kirby: "There is therefore no presumption that contracts between ministers and their religious bodies are not, as such, intended to give rise to legal relations, at least in economic and proprietary matters, as here." Gaudron, Mchugh, Hayne and Callinan JJ also doubted the utility of such a presumption in a joint judgement - but does it create precedent that no presumption should be used in domestic agreements, or just those that apply to "spiritual" bodies? From my understanding, it follows that they found that the onus of proof of whether intention existed in domestic agreements relies on the claimant, now extending to include that which includes the ‘the engagement of a minister of religion.'
(My assignment relates to Mistake and Misrepresentation, I just want to clarify facts). (:
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Could someone post up the Contract B reading guide. I just wanted to have a quick look at it.
EDIT: Never mind. I found it :D
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Hi can you repost the note.
Is it still there or I just cannot see?
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Deeply appreciated lynt.br
I will make the most out of these notes
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I'm thinking of doing Torts A over the summer. Is it particularly difficult (would I be able to cope)?
Would it be worth it?
Just curious. :)
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Cheers mate.
They are offering it this semester, so I thought it might be good to knock-off an extra unit. Torts is the only non-second year unit.
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/course-unit-information/timetables/summer-semester.html
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I am doing crim and contract this sem. Any advice on choosing the tuts and lecturers?
TIA
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Nicki Mollard if she's taking crim
If he's taking contracts, get Kwame's notes because they are bloody brilliant, but he's a terrible lecturer so choose another stream
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Thanks for the info.
But this time those who teach contract are Emmanuel Laryea, Paul Brenner, and Sirko Harder.
While Kathy Laster, Stephen Gray, Bronwyn Naylor and Heli Askola are teaching Crim.
Any thoughts on those lecturers?
And is it possible to get Kwame note if he is not teaching this term?
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Have heard good things about Laryea and Gray (both have been chief examiners in the past).
Bronwyn Naylor wrote one of my textbooks (cannot remember if it was a contracts textbook though) so she's probably competent.
Have not heard of any of the others
I think I might still have Kwame's notes somewhere but I don't know if they're still relevant to the course
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Bronwyn Naylor is the cheif examiner. So I would either attend her or Gray's lecture.
And do you have any advice for contract and crim?
Apparently, they stop using textbooks for contract from this term.
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Sorry to go off topic but I've heard some of the exams or assessments are open book or something?
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Bronwyn Naylor is the cheif examiner. So I would either attend her or Gray's lecture.
And do you have any advice for contract and crim?
Apparently, they stop using textbooks for contract from this term.
Wut? Then what are they using if not textbooks? o.O do you mean that exams are not open-book, because they've been like that for about 2 or 3 years
Sorry to go off topic but I've heard some of the exams or assessments are open book or something?
Most law exams are open-book but they've started to introduce closed-book exams now e.g. contract law, property law
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basically a massive handwriting speed contest
^ entire law degree
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Kwame's Contract A notes attached. These are from 2008 so some of the law might have changed by now (god I'm so old)
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lynt.br, you are AMAZING.
LIFE SAVER. THANK YOU. SO MUCH. :D
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Sorry for reviving this thread. Didn't make sense to make a new one.
Does anyone have the reading guide for Torts B and Crim B?
Not long before uni starts now, and I wanted to get the first couple of weeks of reading finished before then.
Thanks!
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Hi, would anyone happen to have public law notes/assignments? It would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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What is public law? o.O
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Ah not sure when the Monash outline covers it, but public law is a first year subject at la trobe which covers the basic principles like rule of law, separation of powers, judicial review, etc. It's a lead in for administrative and constitutional law.
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That's really cool. I wish Monash had something like that, maybe it would have made consti/admin less of a pain in the ass
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That's really cool. I wish Monash had something like that, maybe it would have made consti/admin less of a pain in the ass
i think a fair bit of that is now in the ILR course
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RE "Nicki Mollard is the best crim lecturer in the faculty however I think this year was her first year teaching torts and apparently she wasn't too amazing at it. she's a nice person though."
Thanks for the great review of my Crim law teaching. I have now been teaching Torts for 4 years in the Undergrad and JD programs. I hope I've graduated from 'not too amazing" to "amazing enough".
I also teach evidence and civil procedure these days.
:)
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RE "Nicki Mollard is the best crim lecturer in the faculty however I think this year was her first year teaching torts and apparently she wasn't too amazing at it. she's a nice person though."
Thanks for the great review of my Crim law teaching. I have now been teaching Torts for 4 years in the Undergrad and JD programs. I hope I've graduated from 'not too amazing" to "amazing enough".
I also teach evidence and civil procedure these days.
:)
That made my day.
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Continued from above post
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Yes, legislation is also plural
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anyone have any notes for taxation law, trusts or lawyers ethics and society? looking to get a jump on next sem
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anyone have any notes for taxation law, trusts or lawyers ethics and society? looking to get a jump on next sem
I would share but my notes are shit and I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy, but you really don't need to worry about lawyers ethics - it's a pretty easy and straightforward subject.
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niwa, thanks for the supportive words, lynt you are an absolute champion
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also any reading guides would be very helpful :)
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reading guides
- ethics (this is for summer semester, normal semester might be conducted differently)
- trusts
- tax law
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Thanks for all this. I'm starting my course soonish and will probably find all of it useful!
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Didn't make any notes for Contract A but here are mine for Contract B. They aren't the best but hopefully not the worst either.
DISCLAIMER: ANY NOTES OR ESSAYS UPLOADED IN THIS THREAD ARE PROVIDED AS EXAMPLES ONLY. ANY ATTEMPTS TO SUBMIT ANY PART OF ANY UPLOADED WORK AS YOUR OWN OR TO IN ANY WAY PLAGIARISE ANYTHING IN THIS THREAD IS CONDEMNED IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE FASHION. FURTHERMORE, WHILE ALL NOTES WERE COMPLETED TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITIES, I CANNOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OF THEIR CONTENT OR ACCOUNT FOR ANY CHANGES IN THE LAW SINCE TIME OF UPLOAD.
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Could someone please upload an example of a case note from a past assignment? I'm currently working on one and would appreciate some sort of a template! (:
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Yeah im in desperate need of some for of tax law notes
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Have no idea what to do with the ILR court report - anyone have tips/their own court report to help out? :L
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I need evidence law notes so can anyone who has them please post them up on here?
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consumer law notes anyone?
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Could someone please upload semi-recent crim and torts reading guide? I'm getting law withdrawal symptoms already and want to get started on some pre-reading.
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hey does anyone have reading guides for property a (law3401)? thanks everyone!
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*bump*
Anyone have notes for LAW7470: Australian legal reasoning and methods?
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Previous reading or unit guides for torts or criminal law anyone? Thanks
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Previous reading or unit guides for torts or criminal law anyone? Thanks
Bump
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Anyone got a Sample Court Report for Lim that they are willing to share?
Also Civil Exam questions & Answers if anyone got some.
Thanks Alot!!
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I LOVE YOU, seriously saving my life here
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Final upload with evidence notes. Will hopefully compile all the notes into the first post eventually :)
I have ethics notes but they are not very good and the course changes year to year. Let me know if desperate and I can throw them up.
Desperate for ethics notes!
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I've updated the first post with all of my exam notes including evidence and ethics.
The ethics notes were prepared 2-3 days before the exam and the quality probably reflects that :)
Good luck with your studies/exams :)
edit: let me know if I've messed up the sharing options on google drive!
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Hi there!
I'm not sure where I should post this as I am not familiar with these forums but any help with course structuring will be much appreciated. I'm currently in my third year of Arts/ Law.
Which of these subjects should/ should not be done together? For example, I understand that Equity + Trusts builds on knowledge from Prop B. Planning on listening to Prop B lectures over the break to help with Equity + Trusts. Currently I'm thinking of doing:
FOURTH YEAR:
SEM 1
EQUITY
CONSTI
ADMIN
1 ARTS UNIT
SEM 2
PROP B
TRUSTS
CORPS
1 ARTS UNIT
FIFTH YEAR:
FIRST SEM:
CIVIL PROCEDURE
LAWYERS ETHICS AND SOCIETY
2 LAW ELECTIVES
SECOND SEMESTER:
EVIDENCE
1 ARTS UNITS
1 LAW UNIT
I would be immensely grateful for any thoughts/ advice on unit combinations. :)