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Awfull Lawfull

JCJCJC wrote: »

I thought the floating charges question was very loosely framed, I took it to be a write-all-you-know question and did that. Sean & Seamus and the sinking cruise ship just shows that these exams can be topical, thankfully I had restriction done to death and could recall the cases, USIT was a big help there.

Yeah I was thinking that as well .Restriction was not one of my better ones,so I had to string it out as much as possible.

JCJCJC

DeSourire wrote: »

That exact question with the insurance twist came up before-the topics may not be predictable but the questions can certainly be prepared in advance.

Interesting, hope I don't need the tip for October. The insurance angle was in a different question wasn't it - the roofing contractors and incorporation. What sort of answer had you for that, in general terms?

ryan606

Awfull Lawfull wrote: »

I found it tough to be honest... I did Ostensible authority,S205,Transfer of Shares and Restriction of Directors ( with only one case !) and only managed to start another question...Alot of what I had prepared did not come up so I was dissapointed,and therefore left with little choice.I obviously misjudged what to cover Oh well onwards and upwards to Equity...

I thought it was a pretty reasonable paper- what topics had you banked on coming up that didnt?

Mojo22

Thought the Company Law exam was ok.
Ran out of time though. Just hope I can scrape a pass

UberStressed

Awfull Lawfull wrote: »

Just wondering how people found Company today ?

I found it pretty straight forward, especially compared to the October one.. however in saying that I completely blanked on caselaw in the corp authority and shareholder protection questions.. and ran out of time for question 8 so barely scribbled down points for that question.. praying for 50! The thoughts of having to sit it again...

randomuser77

Has anyone here had to delay a training contract due to failing FE1s? How do firms react to it, especially big 5 firms? I am definitely going to be back in October.

DaleWinton

Does anyone have GCD EU sample answers for the 2010 and 2011 papers?

I can swap samples for any other subject.

lolita60

DaleWinton wrote: »

Does anyone have GCD EU sample answers for the 2010 and 2011 papers?

I can swap samples for any other subject.

I can send them on to you. Just sent you a PM

noseriously

Just a quick Q on Property - I want to have some basic stuff on treasure trove, just in case it comes up again, I have Webb v. Ireland, National Monuments Act and Armory, Elwes and Parker for finding, is there any other cases I could use? I really only want to know a bit as a back-up!

DeSourire

noseriously wrote: »

Just a quick Q on Property - I want to have some basic stuff on treasure trove, just in case it comes up again, I have Webb v. Ireland, National Monuments Act and Armory, Elwes and Parker for finding, is there any other cases I could use? I really only want to know a bit as a back-up!

That seems fine I would through in Hanna v Peel but after that you should be fine, I find I learn far too much case law and never refer to half of it in the exam.

LSH

Hey

Anyone have any tips for contract??

This is what I am covering:

Privity of contract
Discharge of contractual obligations: Breach & frustration
Remedies
Misrep
Mistake
Undue Influence??
Offer / Acceptance
Consideration / Estoppel
Capacity to contract
Illegal contracts
Restraint of trade
Exemption clauses

I feel like I am covering the whole course!!!

Thanks

chops018

noseriously wrote: »

Just a quick Q on Property - I want to have some basic stuff on treasure trove, just in case it comes up again, I have Webb v. Ireland, National Monuments Act and Armory, Elwes and Parker for finding, is there any other cases I could use? I really only want to know a bit as a back-up!

Waverly Borough Council .v. Fletcher - concerned finding objects in land in a public place, it was held that if the owner of the land manifested control over that public place then he would take possession, but if he didn't then finder would take possession, so a shop or a park would see little control and so the finder would take possession, however a bank would see high control and the owner of the land would take possession.

chops018

DeSourire wrote: »

That seems fine I would through in Hanna v Peel but after that you should be fine, I find I learn far too much case law and never refer to half of it in the exam.

What's Hanna .v. Peel about? Never heard of it..

DeSourire

It is just another case re finding an object on private property above the land. It wouldn't be on the same level of Webb or anything. A soldier finds a brooch in a house (not occupied by the owner) and gives it to police who in turn give it to the owner of the property but finder was deemed to have better title here.

Would anyone have any sample answers for land, I can swap for eu, I'm just have a few issues with some of the problem questions and my manual does not have the answers. (that obviously gives me great confidence going into this exam tomorrow!)

Charlie D

randomuser77 wrote: »

Has anyone here had to delay a training contract due to failing FE1s? How do firms react to it, especially big 5 firms? I am definitely going to be back in October.

I feel your pain. Thinking the same thing myself. EEEKkkkkk

DeSourire

Charlie D wrote: »

I feel your pain. Thinking the same thing myself. EEEKkkkkk

In some of the contracts it states that you have to get them within a certain amount of sittings but tbh I've heard of so many deferring

ryan606

randomuser77 wrote: »

Has anyone here had to delay a training contract due to failing FE1s? How do firms react to it, especially big 5 firms? I am definitely going to be back in October.

Most firms give you three attempts to sit them- I know thats the deal with mine anyway!

JLex

the paper was not too bad loved the president q

chops018

Any final tips for property?

I seem to have co ownership, family home protection, adverse possession, most of succession, treasure trove/finding covered well.... back up's are easements and landlord and tenant. (hoping I don't have to answer with those back up's only have a vague knowledge of them, will be going over them again today but would prefer the others).

lolita60

chops018 wrote: »

Any final tips for property?

I seem to have co ownership, family home protection, adverse possession, most of succession, treasure trove/finding covered well.... back up's are easements and landlord and tenant. (hoping I don't have to answer with those back up's only have a vague knowledge of them, will be going over them again today but would prefer the others).

Sounds like you would have 5 questions covered for even the worst of papers!! You should be grand

Starting to panic myself now... Case names are not willing to stay in my head

chops018

lolita60 wrote: »

Sounds like you would have 5 questions covered for even the worst of papers!! You should be grand

Starting to panic myself now... Case names are not willing to stay in my head

Yeah bit of panic at the moment alright, just hoping for the above as I said, really don't want to have to do a question on the back up's.. Once I remember the stuff I should be grand, please no blanks tomorrow haha!

filosoraptor

Anyone have any input as to what the issues in Q7 were about? Talked about right to livelihood mainly but have a feeling there were others in there that I missed??

Charlie D

filosoraptor wrote: »

Anyone have any input as to what the issues in Q7 were about? Talked about right to livelihood mainly but have a feeling there were others in there that I missed??

I just said also that the 25,000 could be an undue burden on small proportion of community on right to property Blake Employment Equality Bill case law

Also maybe the fact it was criminal and the offence seemed quite vague - AG v King

I really have no idea but again I spent most of it on livelihood.

While I imagine there have been nastier papers out there I felt under huge pressure for time.

banterful

randomuser77 wrote: »

Interesting question re treasure trove. If an item is found in land then it is owned by the owner of the the land. What's the story though where the person who owns the land doesn't occupy it? If an item is found in leased land, does the item go to the lessee or the lessor?

Scrap the last post - as finished constitutional now and have property tomorrow would really love an answer on this from anyone who knows their stuff on finding - all the examiner reports say that the OCCUPIER gets it if within the land - does that mean, for example, that a lessee with a 99 year lease gets to keep it or will it still go to the owner?? Thanks to anyone who knows - this came up as an issue on one of the recent exams so would really appreciate the help!

Fe1erere

For some reason i think a possible mention of the executive as the distributor of state resources re separation of powers..As funding is distributed by the executive for such schemes, it is not for Brian and co to fund the scheme?....might be way off:D

crystalmice

Charlie D wrote: »

randomuser77 wrote: »

Has anyone here had to delay a training contract due to failing FE1s? How do firms react to it, especially big 5 firms? I am definitely going to be back in October.

I feel your pain. Thinking the same thing myself. EEEKkkkkk

Also in the same boat, about as much chance of me being elected Taoiseach next week as of passing all 5 exams my contract doesn't mention about number of sittings, bt I know a few trainees in the firm definetly did 3 sittings do should be ok, my contract has an open ended start date up til 2014 so hoping they won't mind tooo much, I'm sure there are plenty of ppl
Happy to take our 2012 spots

Charlie D

crystalmice wrote: »

Also in the same boat, about as much chance of me being elected taiseach next week as of passing all 5 exams my contract doesn't mention about number of sittings, bt I know a few trainees in the firm definetly did 3 sittings do should be ok, my contract has an open ended start date up til 2014 so hoping they won't mind tooo much, I'm sure there are plenty of ppl
Happy to take our 2012 spots

My contract doesn't mention a limit either. And also has the up until the 2014 limit. It must happen every year, as long as we are not all going to the one firm and all fail!

filosoraptor

Charlie D wrote: »

I just said also that the 25,000 could be an undue burden on small proportion of community on right to property Blake Employment Equality Bill case law

Also maybe the fact it was criminal and the offence seemed quite vague - AG v King

I really have no idea but again I spent most of it on livelihood.

While I imagine there have been nastier papers out there I felt under huge pressure for time.

Interesting about the vague criminal offence, never thought of that. Done a little bit on equality at the end based on the exemption under s.3(4). Dunno if it was relevant though. I was very tight on time myself but i think that's normal for exams like Criminal & Constitutional where there are so many linked issues.

noseriously

OK, so I'm doing:
Succession
Finding/Treasure Trove
Family Property
Registered and Unregistered Land
Easements
Adverse Possession
Mortgages
Does that sound OK or do I need to do co-ownership as well?

qz

Q7 was a bit of a bastard today to be fair, avoided it like the plague, couldn't make head or tails of it!