tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150785492009-10-13T06:16:25.813+01:00The thoughts and ramblings of six UK law students trying to make it to qualification. The students are all at different stages of that journey.Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-38285449949781247312009-01-14T04:50:00.002Z2009-01-14T05:00:44.113Z

Graduation on its way..on its way.. Well, the thought of graduation seems to be on the mind of every 3rd year law student.. and yet...graduation is on its way...My three years @ law school has been fascinating... Great exposure to the saying, law is an arse.. being a student of the subject, the passion for the subject makes the better of you at times of crisis. With the sword of a 2:1 hanging

Aditya Shivkumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741968787226135823aditya.shivkumar@gmail.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-5381713149693004002008-11-11T22:06:00.004Z2008-11-11T22:18:42.306Z

I've noticed no one has posted for a while! My last year is going so quickly which might be due to the amount of work...it is seriously a lot more than last year, I'm finding it difficult to fit my dissertation in at the moment though I'm hoping this will improve soon.Also got to do my application for the LPC this month, I am now panicking over funding it as I haven't got a training contract.

Sarahnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-71330531623295110782008-07-18T13:24:00.003+01:002008-07-18T13:38:34.538+01:00

So I got my exam results and managed to get a 2:1 which I am quite happy about. I can't believe it's my last year already. I got my options through for next year and will be studying Tort (a lot of people have said this is strange because it is usually a first year subject), Family Law, International Human Rights, Law of Income and Turnover Taxes and Women in the Criminal Justice System. The

Sarahnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-48288596381917173272008-06-29T00:18:00.002+01:002008-06-29T00:21:17.060+01:00

Passed everything so all set for year two of the GDL DL. Quite pleased really - managed the first year with a full time job, two part time jobs, two pre-school children, and the ex husband from hell, but have come out with 65.5 overall (and 72 in constiadmin - yay!). So a few months off now before Land law, equity and trust, and criminal law invite me to discover their delights.Didn't ever think

LegallyMumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01616710313357293172noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-68492854365339508702008-03-30T13:25:00.002+01:002008-03-30T13:48:36.922+01:00

Hi kids,Yes yes, I know, I never post here, shame on me and my handbag-sized dog. I do enjoy passing on my wisdom to those who follow in my footsteps. However, I can rarely think of awe-inspiring, useful topics to discuss on this blawg that will aid lawyers-to-be in their quest for a training contract and beyond. However, part-time law student has given me food for thought and I figured since s/

Susie Law Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060966997122168077noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-79709322680389082702008-03-29T19:20:00.004Z2008-03-29T19:50:17.889Z

I thought I'd write about what I've been doing during the second semester since it has been so long since my last post. I finally decided to do a small number of vacation scheme applications rather than the 20 suggested! One firm in particular I am dying to hear from. I had practically given up when I recieved an email telling me I would find out whether the application was successful on Tuesday.

Sarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-47936735774648586652008-03-03T23:39:00.004Z2008-03-04T00:18:40.036Z

Anyone that has ever been in an educational institution knows that the library has benefits, we're not talking about knowledge or learning here. We're talking about hardcore staring at the weird french student who gets frustrated by the 'stupeeditee' (yeah that was meant to be in a french accent if you didn't already notice) of the English language. However, my exploration of the wonders of

Sex, Drugs and Law Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05374043447982729510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-83234718116036314512008-02-29T04:04:00.003Z2008-02-29T05:19:37.231Z

To be honest, I've been saving this blog for a seriously long time. No one has been blogging and it's been anticipation for ages, and then NILL. Well I guess tis up to me again to keep you all entertained, which I will in due course fail terribly at!Well if anyone had ever been to Bangkok, I think you'd understand the term 'FRICKEN HELL', I just realised that that term can be used to describe the

Sex, Drugs and Law Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05374043447982729510noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-18810466244743015712008-02-26T10:17:00.000Z2008-02-26T10:19:34.341Z

Law Careers.Net has an article on UK law blogs (ok, "blawgs") and this site gets a mention. Cheers guys!

Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-11055619983972370942008-02-10T18:18:00.000Z2008-02-10T18:57:20.603Z

Well this is the start of something new for me, sharing random thoughts with people who just happen to be procrastinating and reading this instead of doing course work!Now lets see, the thing that actually made me want to blog here was the fact that damn it, no one is talking about the fun of being in uni!Okay, we're supposed to be serious, uptight, precise and technical. But still do any of you

Sex, Drugs and Law Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05374043447982729510noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-41062097003959436812008-01-25T19:22:00.000Z2008-01-25T19:30:16.295Z

It took three trains to pass today before I could finally board.I call the whole process “survival of the fittest”, since only those who can push their way through using their elbows are able to get into the carriages as soon as they emerge into the abyss that is the platform. Being a mere 5 ft 2, my size has proved somewhat of an advantage - I can now burrow my way through the masses like a mole

Law Galhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13616825567395279139noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-86889739428677159092008-01-14T11:50:00.000Z2008-01-14T12:17:36.607Z

Diaries of UK Law Students, hmmm. A nice header for the blog but then I am pretty unsure how to begin with. Now that I am officially a part of this blog (feels really nice to have your name around) and being asked to post an introductory post about myself, I am unsure how to being with. So will fill in this post with random musings and will begin on a bit focused note later on. And ya that

Tarun Jainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011672832281826827noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-46687379373437392812008-01-13T17:26:00.001Z2008-01-13T17:26:04.198Z

Just received from one of my tutors, regarding a term paper due in this Tuesday (15th January): "It seems that most of you have been sick during the cold and wet winter break. I will thus extend the deadline until the end of the month, but no further extensions." Now, I was all set to hand it in on Tuesday. Do I... Continue working, and hand in the paper on Tuesday, or Fire up Super Mario

Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-61442102838908812072008-01-03T18:41:00.000Z2008-01-03T19:02:34.934Z

As the title suggests, I am currently starting to fill in applications for vacation scheme placements. I am finding this hard...particularly because I have only seen a couple of law firms that really stand out for me. I've attended talk after talk and yet I can still only really choose 3 law firms that I liked. I have been told to apply for 20!Not only that, but when I look at the application I

Sarahnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-31931126315670791592007-12-18T19:02:00.001Z2007-12-18T19:02:27.552Z

Comparing application fees: Legal Practice Course (for those that want to become solicitors): £0.00. Bar Vocational Course (for those that want to become barristers): £40.00. Says it all really about the different professions approaches to access.

Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-21187710660599866202007-11-30T11:22:00.001Z2007-11-30T11:22:07.786Z

A certain Big City Law Firm (that shall remain nameless) hosted an LLM Reception recently, which I had the good fortune to be invited too. I thought it would be a good opportunity to find out more about the firm, what they offer in particular to LLM students and see whether they were the right "fit" for me. What I got instead was a vast room full of people I don't know (overwhelmingly LLM

Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-59394538399140932362007-11-04T10:17:00.000Z2007-11-04T10:22:31.689Z

A few unconnected events and pieces of reading that I have done this week have gotten me thinking about skills that good solicitors have or require.I was reading a short interview of one Magic Circle firm partner who was talking about the need for good solicitors to understand human nature. Law he says, is about regulating the relationship between individual people. So I guess, his thinking is,

Lacklustre Lawyernoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-62485766581000650862007-10-24T19:37:00.000+01:002007-10-24T19:46:54.284+01:00

Hey, I thought I had better post my first blog to introduce myself. I am a 20 year old, second year law student and the University of Birmingham. I decided I wanted to be a lawyer in the first year of sixth form because I thought I would enjoy it! It turns out I was right. I have just started my second year in which I will be studying:Jurisprudence – so far I have had 3 lectures which

Sarahnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-69178175121237529452007-10-15T13:21:00.001+01:002007-10-15T13:21:22.167+01:00

Three new additions to my dictionary of impossible words - an occasional collection of phrases/words which have plain English counterparts that academic lawyers refuse to use. Naturalist: A doctrine based on human beings values in a "state of nature"... I think. Normative: Describing how things should be, rather than how they are. Positivist: A philosophy that states that the only authentic

Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-65565390510184817462007-10-10T15:28:00.000+01:002007-10-10T15:46:37.728+01:00

Well, a few days after returning from the first weekend on the GDL, I finally have the energy and focus to write up the experience.So I suppose that the first thing to say is that it is exhausting. The majority of people on the course work full time and some, like myself, also have family commitments. We all arrived for introductory lectures on skudy skills, electronic access and library

LegallyMumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01616710313357293172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-18608341857332845702007-10-07T15:25:00.001+01:002007-10-07T15:25:13.323+01:00

So, as promised, here it is, the rundown of my first week of lectures. Unlike every week from now on, in the first week we were allowed to take as many subjects as we want - hell, if we had a time-turner and the capacity to stay awake during even the most boring discussion of the minutiae of international transactions we could have taken every single subject. Here are the ones I opted for:

Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-56205218957107282622007-10-03T21:29:00.001+01:002007-10-03T21:29:07.791+01:00

BBC Radio 4's Law in Action programme now comes as a podcast should you miss it (or not care enough to go out of your way to catch it) live. They seem to focus far too much on criminal law for my liking, but still, keeping an eye on the feed just in case.

Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-44327302131799769312007-09-30T12:08:00.001+01:002007-09-30T12:08:26.445+01:00

... Was over a week ago, and yes, I'm only blogging about it now. The reason? Pure laziness - I have after all just purchased season 1 of both Houseand The West Wing and they won't watch themselves. After a two and a half hour enrollment* on the Wednesday, Friday saw induction day, where we were told about all the wonderful and exciting things King's has to offer and how our LLM programme would

Gavin Whenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08736061379111438493noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-8905680929492773042007-09-30T10:18:00.000+01:002007-09-30T10:47:28.086+01:00

So, in conjunction with the posts below, in another news this week BPP has been given degree-awarding powers by the Privy Council. GDL students will come out with a BA in Law, and LPC and BVC students can top up their studies with an extra dissertation and additional module, to leave Law School clutching an LLM. This is a notch above the College of Law, who can award LLBs to students who study

Susie Law Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060966997122168077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078549.post-36278084211760930692007-09-26T09:13:00.001+01:002007-09-26T09:25:11.349+01:00

Lawgirl makes a valid point about Law schools to some extent expoliting students but to some extent students are to blame too. Pursuing a career in Law is not as easy as it looks and some students are ignorant of this and spend far too long pusuing a fantasy they are never going to experience. BVC and LPC providers like CoL and BPP are doing what they do best - taking your money. Arguably they

Lacklustre Lawyernoreply@blogger.com2