Durham LLB Law · Year 1
Durham The Individual and the State
The Individual and the State is a Year 1 module on the Durham University LLB Law. The constitutional relationship between the citizen, Parliament, the executive and the courts — and the grounds on which government action can be challenged.
What The Individual and the State covers
- Parliamentary sovereignty
- The rule of law and separation of powers
- The royal prerogative
- Judicial review — illegality, irrationality, procedural impropriety
- The Human Rights Act 1998
- Devolution
How to revise The Individual and the State at Durham
Start from the leading cases — every the individual and the state answer turns on them. Brief each one (facts, issue, held, ratio), then practise applying it to past-paper questions under timed conditions. Our case library has a plain-English brief for each of the leading authorities. When you write a practice answer, run it through Quill for exam-grade feedback grounded in the case law, and cite everything with the free OSCOLA generator.
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