Sample Questions and Answer Plans

Let’s look at a past paper question. Please have ‘AS Law’ (Chapter 2) available to you as you consider the question. Before consulting the suggested areas of response, please ask yourself: how would I have tackled this question? The responses given below should enable you to understand the practical uses of the ‘Revision guide to delegated legislation’, featured as Table 2.5 on page 49 of ‘AS Law’.

Sample Questions

a) Explain the meaning of delegated legislation and provide examples of this form of law. (15)
b) To what extent is it true to say that delegated is an essential source of law in the English legal system. (15)

Answer Guidance