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biglawhead420

Does anyone have the March 2020 criminal exam report? Thanks guys!

APower79

fe12021 wrote: »

anything that can be left out of criminal?

Or anything that must definitely be done? Is an essay q on strict liability and on omissions due a run?

Fe123

Is everyone at the stage now where they’re learning off are some people still doing notes etc

APower79

Fe123 wrote: »

Is everyone at the stage now where they’re learning off are some people still doing notes etc

Trying to condense notes and learn something but think I’ll just have to start the exam papers!

caius97

TCPIP wrote: »

Same and was wondering if they just didn't like me.

Hey I applied way back in October and heard back the same day about an interview the following week. Send me a PM if you want to know anything about the process it was pretty straight forward and informal. I was offered an internship place on the day of my interview. I’d say they’ve received much more applications now and are just making their way through them

ullaw22

fe12021 wrote: »

don't stress, it's a really predictable paper and i would personally say you've covered enough. succession is almost always two questions so that's 40% of your revision done. assuming about property is finding objects? if so, that's very often on there too as is AP/easements (sometimes both but from what I can remember almost always at least one of them - so maybe add easements but this is just a personal take. it's also quite an easy topic imo...i found it much more bearable than stuff like mortgages and fam property and i left out landlords from revision entirely). co-ownership didn't come up in the last paper - if i remember correctly, p sure i would have answered on it if it did - so i think you're pretty set.

Thanks that's such a great help! Was just glossing over easements and think you're right.

legallyginger

Would anybody have any advice regarding freedom of speech and what's important or good to cover?

Katniss1998

Hi everyone, was hoping someone could be a gem and help me figure out how to answer this August question from EU:

August 2020
Maria is a Dutch national, currently employed as a shift worker in the banking computer centre in Breda, a city in the south of the Netherlands. She resides with her husband Pierre and their two children Lucas (aged 15) and Ruben (aged 18), in the northern suburbs of Antwerp, just over the border in northern Belgium. The family moved from Breda to Antwerp just under a year ago.

Lucas is in his penultimate year of secondary school, still attending the same school in Breda as he was when Maria and her family resided there. He commutes by organised school transport from his home in Antwerp every day. Neither Maria or her husband Pierre can bring Lucas to school every day due to the shift hours Maria has to work, which are often at night, and given that Pierre voluntarily took early retirement just under a year ago from his job as a firefighter in Brussels, Belgium.

A locally administered scheme in Breda bears the cost of school transport to students in the final two years of their secondary education. However, MAria has been informed that the local council will not cover those costs for Lucas as the obligation to organise and pay for this transport relates to students residing in Breda only.

Ruben finished his secondary schooling at the same school in Breda last year and now attends art college in Ghent, Belgium. He has been charged the exact same enrolment fees as all other EU nationals on his course (€1750 p/a) but his application to the public student support scheme for a loan of €5500 to cover accommodation costs in Ghent has been refused on the basis that these financial supports are only available to people who (i) have been made involuntarily redundant from work in the past twelve months; or (ii) are the children of a parent currently working in Belgium; or (iii) are the children of a parent who has been made involuntarily unemployed in Belgium in the past two years.

Outraged by these two discrete Dutch and Belgium decisions, Maria comes to you for advice on whether the refusal to (i) cover the school transport costs for Lucas and (ii) provide Ruben with a student loan, constitutes unjustifiable indirect discrimination against migrant workers as prohibited under EU law.

Advise Maria, referring to relevant CJEU caselaw throughout your answer.

Report
Question 5 required an answer on FMOW and possibly citizenship and the State supports available to residents of a State only. It required an examination of whether it is compatible with EU law in this area to make benefits like a school transport reimbursement scheme, available to people who live in a set area only, especially when they have had to move resident over the border to another EU MS for employment purposes. The second part of the question sought an examination of primarily the case law, rights and entitlements to supports for students who move from one MS to another for education. The best answers would also consider whether the type of course that Ruben has enrolled in would constitute the type of vocational education and or training covered by EU law.

I am happy enough with the second part. But in relation to the first part, what points can be made? I was thinking that the rules did not apply because Maria and her family were living in her MS of origin so thus the provisions on EU citizenship were not triggered? Then in relation to FMOW-Art 45 prevents national discrimination Art 7 of 2011 Freedom of Movement for Workers Regulations provides that “a worker shall enjoy the same social and tax advantages as national workers”. So would you just get into a discussion on national discrimination using caselaw? But I didn't know the case law to expand on that. I am just having trouble reasoning it out.

NewFe1

Fe123 wrote: »

Is everyone at the stage now where they’re learning off are some people still doing notes etc

Nope not yet. I'm doing my last 3 in March and hope to have my notes done by Wednesday, giving me 3 weeks to focus on learning them and doing past paper questions.

Fe123

NewFe1 wrote: »

Nope not yet. I'm doing my last 3 in March and hope to have my notes done by Wednesday, giving me 3 weeks to focus on learning them and doing past paper questions.

Great so I’m not alone can I ask which exams you have left?

NewFe1

Fe123 wrote: »

Great so I’m not alone can I ask which exams you have left?

Company, Constitutional, Contract... yourself?

CoconutHeadMia

Is there anything that people feel is a must to cover for company in the upcoming paper?

Fe1user5555

CoconutHeadMia wrote: »

Is there anything that people feel is a must to cover for company in the upcoming paper?

Corporate borrowing as it very surprisingly did not appear on November paper. Also separate legal personality as that was quite due and didn’t come up!

Iso_123

Fe123 wrote: »

Is everyone at the stage now where they’re learning off are some people still doing notes etc

I still have a small amount of notes to do, think I should be done by Monday though and then I'll just be learning off and doing exam q's. I have been looking at exam q's throughout but not really writing out full/proper answers for them.

Fe179user

ullaw22 wrote: »

Right so this is my first run out with the FE1s and I'm really struggling. Only doing one: Property. Am I deluded in thinking that About Property, Succession, Coownership, Family Property, Licences and Rights of Residence, Landlord and Tenant, Adverse Possession and Judgment Mortgages would be enough to have covered? Haven't touched off anything else yet and am balancing this with full-time college course so would prefer take the chance on just studying these if it's in any way realistic to pass with just these topics covered. All help massively appreciated!

Property is very predictable
Succession and adverse possession are 100% guaranteed - usually make up about 3 questions of the paper so know it inside out
Coownership is due to come up because it didn’t in November
Family property did come up in November but that’s not to say it won’t come up again
If you’re doing judgment mortgages IMO you’re better doing the entire chapter
Landlord and tenant law is also a good one!
You’re better just looking through the topics and seeing what comes up because it is quite repetitive.

I got 61% in November and it was my first FE1 too. Let me know if you would like to see my scripts just send me a message. Property was the easiest IMO so don’t stress.

laworlawww

Fe179user wrote: »

Property is very predictable
Succession and adverse possession are 100% guaranteed - usually make up about 3 questions of the paper so know it inside out
Coownership is due to come up because it didn’t in November
Family property did come up in November but that’s not to say it won’t come up again
If you’re doing judgment mortgages IMO you’re better doing the entire chapter
Landlord and tenant law is also a good one!
You’re better just looking through the topics and seeing what comes up because it is quite repetitive.

I got 61% in November and it was my first FE1 too. Let me know if you would like to see my scripts just send me a message. Property was the easiest IMO so don’t stress.

Agree with this!! Could also cover the topic of finding, it's a really short topic which came up in November but has come up quite frequently lately, if it comes up it's a nice easy problem question to do

catonafence

Katniss1998 wrote: »

Hi everyone, was hoping someone could be a gem and help me figure out how to answer this August question from EU:

August 2020

Hi, I’m still working through FMOG and won’t be working on FMOW exam questions until next week. I’d love to go through the answer then( unless someone has gotten back to you)

nmurphy1441

Fe1user5555 wrote: »

Corporate borrowing as it very surprisingly did not appear on November paper. Also separate legal personality as that was quite due and didn’t come up!

So would you say a question on crystallisation and the Solomon v Solomon question???

fe12021

anyone able to tell me what came up in the november criminal paper? thanks a mil

awsah

fe12021 wrote: »

anyone able to tell me what came up in the november criminal paper? thanks a mil

Hey I posted my paper a while ago but I will leave it again here, there was a big mix of topics, I think it really demostrates that you need to know most of the course

sunnylegal

What list of topics are people learning for company?

sunnylegal

Anyone have notes/an answer for distribution of assets when winding up?

nmurphy1441

Anyone have property sample answers???

LegalEagle21

nmurphy1441 wrote: »

Anyone have property sample answers???

I have. PM me your email

awsah

Dear Candidate,



The March 2021 sitting of the FE-1 will be delivered online due to the current Living with Covid Level 5 restrictions. We thank you for your application.



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WesternC123

sunnylegal wrote: »

Anyone have notes/an answer for distribution of assets when winding up?

I do if you want to pm me your email!

fe1mary

Would anyone have equity sample answers they wouldn't mind sharing?

awsah

sunnylegal wrote: »

Anyone have notes/an answer for distribution of assets when winding up?

The order of entitlement for payment out of the proceeds of liquidation is as follows:

∙ secured chargeholders
∙ costs and expenses of an examiner
∙ costs, charges and expenses incurred in the winding up of the company including the remuneration of the liquidator
∙ preferential creditors such as the Revenue Commissioners, the rating authority and employees
∙ floating chargeholders
∙ unsecured creditors
∙ members of the company

Iso_123

Is anyone here that is doing equity leaving out tracing? I was going to cover it and spent this morning reading about it but I find it quite confusing and am thinking of leaving it out now.. I have most other topics for equity covered and am only leaving out constructive trusts, (tracing), the part of complete constitution that never comes up and maybe estoppel because its come up a good few times in a row now.

nmurphy1441

Iso_123 wrote: »

Is anyone here that is doing equity leaving out tracing? I was going to cover it and spent this morning reading about it but I find it quite confusing and am thinking of leaving it out now.. I have most other topics for equity covered and am only leaving out constructive trusts, (tracing), the part of complete constitution that never comes up and maybe estoppel because its come up a good few times in a row now.

I’m not sitting equity but from what I can remember when I was doing it, I got a sample answer and learned it off. I found tracing a bit confusing too! That could be an option just incase it comes up!