Session one: Task
Now spend about 10 minutes looking for and thinking about news stories with a legal dimension.
This can be on a news website or in a print newspaper.
Here is a list of all the different types of law to help you identify the area of law involved:
Different Types of Law
- Accounting
- Administrative and judicial review
- Agriculture, animals and fisheries
- Banking and finance law
- Charities
- Civil procedure and the administration of justice
- Commercial law
- Company law and business entities
- Competition law
- Conflicts of laws (private international law)
- Constitutional law
- Construction law
- Consumer law
- Contract law
- Criminal law and the disposition of offenders
- Criminal procedure
- Ecclesiastical law
- Education law
- Employment and labour law
- Environmental law
- Equity and trusts
- European Union law
- Family law
- Health law
- Health and safety law
- Human rights and civil liberties
- Immigration and nationality
- Information technology and telecommunications
- Insolvency law
- Insurance law
- Intellectual property law
- International law
- Landlord and tenant
- Leisure and licensing
- Local government
- Media and communications
- Military and war
- Natural resources, energy and utilities law
- Pensions law
- Personal injury
- Personal property law
- Private client
- Professions and ethics
- Real property law
- Securities
- Succession law and estate planning
- Tax law
- Tort law
- Transport law
- Welfare, housing and social security law
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