Since I last made any entry here, Christmas has come and gone, 2010 has ground to a close, and a brand new 2011 has arrived. Re: Christmas, well, I spent the day itself alone, wrapped in a duvet, occasionally throwing up. Festive dinner was a solitary bowl of instant Korean kimchi noodles, at 11pm. And, other than baiting the Professor (of English & Drama) who was house guest over the season, and avoiding the small pieces of plastic his son scattered everywhere, very little of any note occurred.
A couple of weeks back, second semester started. Which means I am now over 25% of the way through my LLB. And I still know almost nothing about the law. Which was amply illustrated earlier this week, when the first semester results came out. Three exams at the end of last term. First Criminal Law and Evidence. I knew I had done a poor paper, and so the D3 (a third) result wasn't a great shock. Although it was still a little disappointing, as it will stand as my only result in criminal law, not having any honours papers to improve in. Contract, a subject I am rather more happy contemplating, went rather better, as I correctly noted at the time. A B3, which in common parlance is a reasonable 2i. But that's not a final mark yet (unlike criminal), as it has to be combined with the A5 from last term's Property, and the as-yet unsat Delict exam, and an Unjustified Enrichment essay that will both be done later this semester. These four together comprising "Property and Obligations" (ie private law). Lastly, there was the multiple choice examinette on Legal Systems. Which I thought I had done rather well in. And so I had: 28/30. Although, until I pointed out an error in the marking, it was only 27/30. Rather pleasingly, pointing this error out (and getting it corrected) lifted three fellow students into the pass bracket (60%, or 18/30). Not that this exam matters very much; it's a simple pass/fail, and a pass is required to be granted any credit for "Sources and Institutions of Scots Law", which is a portmanteau course of public law, the legal system, and legal methods.
So, it looks like I can actually do this law thing. Although some bits I do better than others. This semester, I continue with more private law (the aforementioned delict, and unjustified enrichment), and even more public law, with added Roman law, and Family law. Mostly fun, although family law is shaping up to be a rather dull traipse though modern legislation. Still, on the bright side, there's no criminal - where the stories were always good, but the law itself was baffling.
