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A-Level Law (AQA 7162), against the DfE/Ofqual subject content.
Overview
A-Level Law (AQA 7162), against the DfE/Ofqual subject content.
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Examines what distinguishes legal rules from other social rules and explores the relationships between law and society, morality, justice, and the concept of fault.
Considers the principle that no one may be punished except under the law, alongside ideas of equality before the law and the need for clear, accessible rules.
Covers how Parliament creates statute and the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy, together with powers delegated through Orders in Council, statutory instruments and bylaws.
Looks at how judges read and apply Acts of Parliament using the established rules and approaches, and how the doctrine of binding precedent operates within the court hierarchy.
Reviews the work of bodies such as the Law Commission in reforming the law and the role of EU institutions and sources within the English legal system.
Surveys the structure of the civil and criminal courts and the alternative routes through which legal disputes may be resolved.
Examines the roles of solicitors, barristers, lay magistrates and juries, judicial independence, and the means by which people obtain legal advice and funding.
Establishes the foundational requirements of a criminal offence, including actus reus, mens rea, causation and the underlying theory of harm in criminal law.
Covers murder and the forms of manslaughter alongside the range of assault and wounding offences committed against another person.
Addresses offences such as theft and robbery together with inchoate liability for attempting to commit a crime.
Considers the general defences available to a defendant, grouped into those concerning capacity and those based on necessity or compulsion.
Examines liability in negligence for personal injury, property damage, economic loss and psychiatric harm, together with private nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher.
Covers the duties owed to visitors and trespassers, an employer's liability for the acts of others, and the available tortious defences and remedies.
Explores the essential requirements for a valid agreement and the express, implied, statutory and exclusion terms that make up its content.
Looks at factors such as misrepresentation and duress that undermine a contract, the ways a contract may end, and the remedies for breach.
Examines the theory and international framework of human rights, the protections in key Convention articles, their domestic effect under the Human Rights Act 1998, enforcement and reform.
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AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
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