It's true what they tell you about law school students not having any life outside the law school. Well, maybe the undergrads do, but the accelerated crew don't. Today, no sooner had we finished our Contract exam then we regrouped for coffee, bacon rolls, and a run through, and tear-down, of last year's paper for the next exam. The next exam being Scottish Legal Institutions.
Anyway, yes, today's exam. Contract. The lost shoals of many a poor student. Only an hour and a half, with one compulsory case, with the usual convoluted narrative and cast of unlikely characters doing various silly things (although I gather they do even sillier things in Delict [like tort, for Southerners and USonians] questions). It was slightly easier than usual, as (to pull up the grades I assume) the question posed, after setting out the narrative, was rather more directed than the usual "comment on the legal nature of the obligations entered into above, particularly the remedies available to X". This year, it was phrased as three, fairly pointed, questions. Then one of three two-part questions about various aspects of Contract law, each requiring a quick summary of the case law on the point in question.
All in all, on both questions, I think I manage tolerably well, and I was rather pleased to extract a goodly number of halfway relevant cases from my addled brain. For some of them I even managed to remember the parties names! All in all, I'm fairly confident I've passed, but, as usual, I have no idea by how much.
So, roll on Thursday, and the end of the exam season, so Christmas can start. And tomorrow, I have a meeting with Brodies LLP, with a view to a summer placement. Well, I hope I do, as it's already been cancelled twice, because of the bad weather, and it was rather cold and frosty at Hogwarts on campus this morning, so...
