KCL LLB Law · Year 1
KCL Legal Reasoning & Legal Skills
Legal Reasoning & Legal Skills is a Year 1 module on the King's College London 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 Legal Reasoning & Legal Skills 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 Legal Reasoning & Legal Skills at KCL
Start from the leading cases — every legal reasoning & legal skills 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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