Specification points
WJEC A-level Law A150QS
43 points in 3 topics, with WJEC's codes and titles.
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1 Component 1: The Nature of Law and the English Legal System
- 1.1 Law making and the nature of law
- 1.1.1 Parliamentary and European law making
- 1.1.2 Delegated legislation Content
- 1.1.3 Statutory interpretation
- 1.1.4 Judicial precedent
- 1.2 The English legal system and the nature of law
- 1.2.1 Civil Courts
- 1.2.2 Criminal process Content
- 1.2.3 Legal personnel
- 1.2.4 Access to justice and funding
2 Component 2: Substantive Law in Practice
- 2.1 The law of contract
- 2.1.1 Rules of the law of contract
- 2.1.2 Essential requirements of contract
- 2.1.3 Express and implied terms
- 2.1.4 Misrepresentation and economic duress
- 2.1.5 Discharge of contract
- 2.1.6 Remedies
- 2.2 The law of tort
- 2.2.1 Rules and theory of the law of tort
- 2.2.2 Liability in negligence for injury to people and damage to property
- 2.2.3 Occupiers’ liability
- 2.2.4 Torts connected to land
- 2.2.5 Vicarious liability
- 2.2.6 Defences
- 2.2.7 Remedies
- 2.3 Criminal law
- 2.3.1 Rules of criminal law and theory in criminal law
- 2.3.2 General elements of liability
- 2.3.3 Offences against the person
- 2.3.4 Property offences, including theft and robbery
- 2.3.5 Capacity defences of insanity and intoxication
- 2.3.6 Necessity defences of self defence, duress and duress of circumstances
- 2.3.7 Preliminary offences of attempt
- 2.4 Human rights law
- 2.4.1 The rules of human rights law and theory in human rights law
- 2.4.2 Protection of rights and freedoms in the UK
- 2.4.3 Specific provisions within the European Convention on Human Rights
- 2.4.4 Restrictions permitted by the ECHR
- 2.4.5 Enforcement
- 2.4.6 Reform