Introduction to the Companion Website for ‘AS Law’

Welcome to the Companion Website for ‘AS Law’. The materials placed on this site are designed to extend and test your knowledge of the topics contained in the textbook. Whilst you can read the textbook on its own, these additional materials will hopefully stretch you, provide updates and broaden your interest in the subject. This site contains four main sets of original resources, set out below, together with web-links to other sites, information (a page of Celebrity Cases) and interactive materials (including a Glossary of terms) that relate directly to the textbook:

AS Law Self-Assessment Tests

These have been developed as revision aids for most of the topics in the book. They have, in the main, been tried and tested by AS Law students at Kingsbury High School. You can also find suggested answers to each Test via a link on this site. Regular testing of knowledge is a positive learning method, though it is only effective, in practice, if the answers are provided. Please bear in mind two points about the answers provided when seeking to assess your own achievement in these tests:

• On occasions I have given a longer answer than necessary to support your understanding: do not worry if your own answers are more concise.
• Where lists have been asked for, the general practice has been to give the required amount of examples only. Clearly, such lists are not exhaustive and you may have correct answers that have not been included: please refer back to the relevant sections of the book to check your responses.

I hope you enjoy having a go at these tests, though more particularly I hope you find them useful for your studies in AS Law.

Revision quizzes and puzzles

You will see that the book includes revision quizzes for every chapter, but this section of the website creates a further set of resources so that you have other opportunities to test your understanding in a fun, interactive manner.

Sample Questions and Answer Guidance

The aim of this section is to show you how common areas of questioning across the examination boards can be tackled, with a particular emphasis on the content required for certain types of questions. The questions are meant to be generic (ie, not focused on any one examination board) and the mark schemes may therefore differ for each board, but the idea is that you can see what sort of material to include in your answers to questions that frequently appear on examination papers.

Law Updates

It is a common complaint among students, teachers and even practitioners that Law is one of those academic disciplines which just does not ‘stand still’; and for many, of course, that is also the thrill of the subject. ‘AS Law’ was completed in August 2006 but you can be sure that by the time you are reading these words, many more interesting cases will have made their way through the courts and many more issues been raised for Parliament’s attention. It is proposed, therefore, that updates will be posted on this site on a termly basis where possible. There are also links from this site to other useful resources.

The Companion Website is an evolving project and it would be great if law students (and teachers) started to shape the direction of the site: I therefore welcome your comments and suggestions. With best wishes for your studies in Law,

Andrew Mitchell
September 2006