Law Resources

Essential Reading for KS5 law

• Textbooks – OCR A / AS Level Books 1 and 2 by Jacqueline Martin
• A level Law Review – copies in the library and E6
• Law pages of quality broadsheet newspapers – e.g. Tuesday’s Times
• All students have access to lesson materials, support and extension materials, exam questions and exemplars through ‘The Golden Box’ will be shared at the start of the course.

 

Wider reading

• The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham (highly recommended)
• Letters to a Law Student by McBride (highly recommended)
• What about the Law by Catherine Barnard (recommended)
• How to Study Law by A Bradney
• Modern English Legal System by Smith and Bailey
• Eve was Framed by Helena Kennedy (Good for legal concepts)
• Learning the Law by Glanville Williams
• The Law by Waldron
• Invitation to Law by Simpson
• The Law Machine by Clare Dyer and Marcel Berlins
• How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic by Madsen Pirie (not technically a law book but interesting scenarios to debate and fairly accessible – a more general Social Science text)

Online Resources

• A level law websites e.g. www.sixthform.info/lawblog – these sites often highlight important developments
• www.lawobserver.co.uk/index.html
• Radio 4 has a topic legal programme, ‘Law In Action’ which examines a range of interesting legal issues in each episode and is available for download as a podcast.  www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b116tgy1
• Debating matters at – www.lawupdates.co.uk has some super topics for debates
• Tutor2U – http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/law/
• Guardian law pages – http://www.theguardian.com/law
• Supreme Court – http://supremecourt.uk/
• Case Reports – http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/
• Parliament site – http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldjudgmt.htm
• Acts of Parliament – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga
• Lots of blogs and information – http://lawbore.net/
• Links to loads of sites and materials – http://www.venables.co.uk/

 

Other resources:

• Thinking of applying to study law at universities – access the Law University Applications Advice Booklet for tips on writing your personal statements, the LNATs exam and interviews – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hqgEQNJG1oUm5sXp7cLwdgWU4467eBeyHuU_JAInPIw/edit
• Watch Question Time
• Listen to Radio 4s ‘Law in Action’ programme
• Keep your eye out for linked documentaries
• All courts, except family courts and those ‘in camera’, are open to the public – they are a fantastic resource
• Real crime books
• Crime fiction