Lecture Notes

I just noticed this post on The Diaries of UK Law Students about how it can be impossible to keep up with lecturers in lectures, resulting in incomprehensible notes. I actually laughed out loud and it brought back memories of some of my notes I have come across when trying to revise. My personal favourite was in the first year. Property I. It went something along the lines of 'Estoppel requires detriment as seen in the case of A, similar facts to a previous case, ok now i'm lost, i'm sorry for me trying to read this back, it makes no sense. textbook?!'

Similarly last year during reading the facts of a case I had written in a lecture where I was particularly far behind in the notes I discovered one sentance which said 'est. det. ECJ. HL. conflict. damages.' umm yeah, that could actually be any case, and what?! Perhaps lecturers can't slow down otherwise we won't cover the material, but then when I asked to record lectures I was told by many lecturers that they didn't like it. I think the moral of the story is learn shorthand, that is if you can find time around everything else!

Law and The Diaries of UK Law Students

As, since my couple of dissertation posts, I haven't mentioned much about my law life I thought I should point people in the direction of a blog that is purely about law: The Diaries of UK Law Students.

This blog has expanded since I mentioned it last year, from 'The Diary of a UK Law Student' to 'Diaries' due, I assume, to the increased number of writers. Two of the four contributors have their own blogs, which means (unlike me) that they have a much more concentrated focus on law in 'the Diaries'.

Another relatively new law blog is BabyBarista. It is loaded with a disclaimer stating it is a 'fictional account of a pupil barrister' which raises questions in my mind as to whether it is really fictional but to be honest I don't really mind either way. It is an interesting account whether it is true to life or not.

And in case anyone is dying to know what is going on in my law life, yesterday I went on a boat tour round Southampton docks for Carriage of Goods (see photo), and today is the first day of four weeks of Easter. What does Easter mean for me? It means revision for my three final exams, a piece of coursework which is worth 40% of Carriage and BUSA Nationals. As usual so much to do, so little time!