Course choices for 3rd/4th year that gives exemptions for King's Inns/Blackhall Place

Thirdfox

Hi there I'm at the stage of deciding what courses to take for my 3rd and 4th year at college and I was wondering what system of exemptions does Blackhall Place have in place?

I see on the King's Inns website that:
- Land Law (including Law of Succession)
- Equity
- Administration Law
- Company Law
- Law of the European Union
- Jurisprudence

are required and:

- Law of Contract
- Criminal Law
- Irish constitutional law
- Law of Torts
- Law of Evidence

are examined.

Looking at the Law Society's pages it isn't clear what is required and what is examined for the FE-1's.

Your advice and help is appreciated.

dermot_sheehan

Blackhall has no more exemptions, they are gone since the Abrahamson v. Law Society case. In trinners generally one does evidence and equity in third year and company and jurisprudence in 4th year as the required suibjects, but of course people can do them the other way around.

Thirdfox

Thank you, I remember reading about that case for Administrative Law (which is just the second part of Con II lectures right?). Looking through the 24 choices there are so many interesting courses I want to do but effectively I'll only have 4 extra options after these "mandatory" options...

Hmm, I may be going abroad for 3rd year so it does potentially throw things out of whack (but I have read that foreign courses on jurisprudence is accepted depending on the university). I think I better have a chat with my tutor about this!

CantGetNoSleep

Are you going to France or Germany? If so I know this is certainly the case, even though the French courses are a lot different to jurisprudence here

Not sure about any other countries but i'd imagine it would be the same

You're better off contacting Kings Inns directly rather than a tutor imo, they will tell you exactly what modules you need to take (as they're not called jurisprudence).

Thirdfox

Hoping to get to America but a few European universities have been applied to (just in case I don't get my first choice.) The courses I would take would all be taught in English but that's still further down the line. Right now I'm planning for the possibility that I'm here next year - 2 mandatory + 2 optional courses per year seems like a good balance.

Is there any particular reason why people tend to do equity and evidence first? Is jurisprudence and company harder (and so are left for later when you are more legally mature)?

Tom Young

Inns has no exemptions but a pile of prerequisites: Admin Law, Jurisp etc.