Durham LLB Law · Year 1
Durham Introduction to English Law & Legal Method
Introduction to English Law & Legal Method is a Year 1 module on the Durham University LLB Law. The foundational legal-method skills the rest of the degree is built on — finding the law, reading cases, interpreting statutes and writing like a lawyer.
What Introduction to English Law & Legal Method covers
- Sources of law and the court hierarchy
- Reading and briefing cases
- Statutory interpretation
- Legal research
- OSCOLA citation
- Legal writing and problem-question technique
How to revise Introduction to English Law & Legal Method at Durham
Start from the leading cases — every introduction to english law & legal method 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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