1. By Sabina Andrei, Sabrina
Bernard, Halimah Miah Begum, Rahida
Khatun

2.  Lawbore is the City Law School’s legal portal which provides
students with additional information for the studying of law. It
highlights law related events that are coming up in the city as
well as the current English law related news. It also provides
additional information on modules and it encourages students to
further reading. Basically Lawbore helps to make law students
lives easier.
 Lawbore is split up into : Topic Guides, City
Hub, Learnmore, Blog, Keeping up to date with Lawbore and
Improving my prospects with Lawbore. Our presentation is a
critical review of Learnmore.
 Learnmore helps students learn important new skills by providing
online tutorials, videos and learning materials. It is divided into 6
categories: exams, newbies, writing, moots, research and
careers.

4. - Make a revision plan! It will help you figure out how much time you need to revise and how
much time you need to do other things.
- Be realistic and don’t set yourself silly goals ( I know…we do that all the time!). Its not possible
to study from 8am-8pm so give yourself enough time! Make a checklist everyday to see what you
have achieved so far.
- Read your lecture handouts even if you think they are useless! They actually are there for a
reason. They help you know what you are expected to do and they will highlight the
fundamental issues and cases! SO READ THEM!
- Create a good study environment. It is preferable to be quiet and tidy but then again, it depends
on every type of student! So figure out what is best for you
- Make revision notes that will help YOU study so again, figure out what is best for you:
pictures, diagrams, colours . Don’t make them pointless though, it really is a waste of time.
- Put cases into context and don’t try to write a lot about them and memorise everything because
it will take you 5 hours to get all the details straight. So don’t do irrelevant case studies.
- Past papers are the best way to revise although you need to study before looking through them.
- Test yourself and see if you are able to remember the cases and the rest of the material.

5. - Essay questions: don’t stray from the topic, read the question carefully
because you will get no credit if you answer a different question, get to
the point, don’t write everything that you know about a topic just to
impress the examiner and criticise the law if you don’t agree with it ( you
are allowed to!)
- Problem questions: Facts: Problems will be in their form of facts so it is a
good idea to not argue with the facts stated in the question but discuss
what they are asking you to. Make sure that your point is relevant, have an
introduction and then get straight into the question they are asking you.
Reasons and authorities (cases and statutes) must be given. However
boring and dull some cases and statutes are! 

7.  Getting experience in a law firm is important to
get anywhere in your career in law.
 It helps you understand what actually working in
a law firm is all about and can give you a taster
to what your life will be like.
 Being around barristers and solicitors all the
time will help you realise the reality of you
career and what it entails. It is such a good
insight in your career.
 Also, other law firms love it if you have had work
experience previously as it shows you are
interested and not a lazy, partying, drinking
student!

8.  In the first year of university students should start thinking about their future jobs
and the skills that they have to develop in order to become great barristers and
solicitors. There are different types of skills:
 The transferable skills are the ones that you can develop: initiative, attention to
detail, able to work under pressure, written & communication skills, advocacy and
research skills, team work etc.
 However, added to these skills law students have to have a true passion for law in
order to achieve greatness. They have to be committed and they have to like
studying law. If you find it boring and you don’t like doing it then I don’t see much
point in going on with it.
 If you want to be a barrister you have to know that in the first years you will be
financially unstable, you will be self employed. You need to be curious and be willing
to go on by yourself or in a team.
 If you want to be a solicitor you will work more with a team and with the clients.
Great solicitors are the ones who can communicate easily with their clients. And also
remember, you have to have skills in packing your luggage fast because there will be
a lot of traveling!
 Most important bit: you need relevant experience starting with your first year. So
don’t think you can leave it all to the last years, it doesn’t work like this.

9. Writing

10.  You don’t want to find yourself overwhelmed by pages and pages
with useless notes. A very good idea is to have a detailed set of
notes from different textbooks, case summaries and articles and
other notes for revision. The revision notes should only be done
after the student has completed all the required reading and has
made the detailed notes.
 In order to summarise different points use bullet points, underline
and highlight important information.
 In order to write the revision notes make sure that you read other
sources on top of what you’ve read already such as
statutes, debates and other articles.

11.  Read the questions carefully and make sure you have a
good plan of what you are going to include in your
paragraphs.
 Get to the point and it is always useful to criticise the law
if you don't agree with it.
 Make sure you use the facts!
 Be relevant and don't stray off the topic at hand
 The question is there to test your ability so prove it in your
answer that you fully understand what you are talking
about.
 Rules and authority is important in getting extra marks as
it helps give you a highly regarded essay paper. Using cases
and statutes to back up your argument holds great
authority.

13. Learn more:
MOOTING
Don't know what
mooting is?
Well, Learn more allows you to access
Also.... mooting and gives you all the basics you
You can get need to know.
tips from the
students who This consists of :
have •Slides telling you what mooting is
experienced it •The Do’s and Dont’s during a mooting
first hand by competition
clicking on the •And....Real life footage of a mooting
video’s!!! session which is great because you can
get an idea of what to expect!
http://learnmore.lawbore.net/index.php/Take_It_From_The_Students

15. Learnmore has a section for:
This is very The career’s section is useful as it aims to
informative for meet the needs of every individual. For
newbie's who are example, there are sections for aspiring
studying Law for the solicitors or lawyers only. This also makes
first time. It includes it easier for the individual to navigate their
topics such as work way round without having to waste time
experience, pro- browsing for what they are looking for.
bono, LPC and many
more...

16. Despite the “Careers” section being
useful, there is far too much writing
involved!!!
This makes the website seem:

17. Cant find a Case your
looking for?
It also includes
Then check out the It includes power points
information on how to
RESEARCH section on which tell you how to
find what you need!
Learnmore. understand legal
This makes finding
reports, how to
cases or journals much
understand the legal
easier and simple.....and
abbreviations and more.
you’ll find out that you
don’t ALWAYS have
to go to the library!

BUT, sometimes you cant just Google
everything! 
Despite this, the research section will tell you
exactly where you can find the legal information
you need.

18. But, does the research section
answer all your questions?
NO!

Then, maybe there needs to be an FAQ page where you might find
answers to what you are looking.

19. As you have now seen....
Learn more is fun and exciting to explore. This is because its very interactive e.g.
slides., videos which makes learning more enjoyable rather than reading
continuous paragraphs and getting lost halfway!
Its like an all-in-one book which you never have to return 
It gives you all the legal information you need without having to stress about the
complicated legal language! (Phewww…..)
BUT……..
Some of the videos, for example “take it from the students” are veryyyyyy long.
Also, learnmore GIVES you the info, BUT doesnt test your knowledge &
understanding. So, there could be quizzes at the end to see what you have learnt.