Bar Council Written study plan

Map the constitutional and administrative syllabus into a one-page topic tree covering constitutional structure, fundamental rights, judicial review, and administrative decision-making.

State the core constitutional doctrines from memory in writing, then correct gaps against a textbook.

Draft a 400-word case note on a leading separation-of-powers or judicial-review decision, identifying the ratio and its limits.

Build a table of administrative-law grounds of review (illegality, irrationality, procedural impropriety, legitimate expectation) with one illustration each.

Outline the elements of the major offences against the person and against property, with actus reus and mens rea separated in a grid.

Trace the criminal process from arrest to appeal, noting bail, disclosure, and time limits.

Apply the rules on joint enterprise, intention, and defences to three short hypotheticals under timed conditions.

Tabulate the rules on confessions, identification evidence, and improperly obtained evidence with their exclusionary consequences.

Reduce contract formation, consideration, terms, and misrepresentation to a checklist you can apply without notes.

Draft a 500-word opinion on a breach-and-remedies scenario, distinguishing damages, specific performance, and rescission.

Summarise the commercial-transactions overlay: sale of goods, agency, and negotiable instruments, in a comparison table.

Complete 20 multiple-choice questions on contract and record every wrong answer with its corrective rule.

Classify the torts of negligence, nuisance, trespass, and defamation by protected interest and available remedy.

Draft a skeleton argument on a negligence problem that isolates duty, breach, causation, and remoteness.

Map the rules of evidence by category: relevance, hearsay, character, opinion, privilege, and burden of proof.

Write a one-page note on how evidence rules change the shape of a civil versus a criminal case theory.

Build a table distinguishing legal and equitable interests in land, including formalities for creation and transfer.

Explain the rules on co-ownership, trusts, and priorities of registered and unregistered interests in writing without notes.

Draft a short opinion on a boundary and easement dispute applying the correct doctrinal tests.

List the equitable remedies and the discretionary factors that govern their award.

Outline marriage, divorce, maintenance, and custody rules with the governing statute or principle beside each.

Draft a one-page case analysis of a family-law dispute, separating facts, issue, holding, and reasoning.

Explain the main schools of jurisprudence and how each would decide a hard case, in a comparative table.

Write a 400-word reasoned argument defending one interpretive approach to a statutory ambiguity.

Reduce the professional conduct code to a decision checklist for conflicts, confidentiality, fees, and candour to the court.

Draft a formal opinion of 700 words with issue, facts, analysis, and conclusion clearly signposted.

Draft a statement of claim and a defence from a single fact pattern, checking every required pleading element.

Rehearse a five-minute oral submission and self-assess against a written advocacy rubric.

Sit two full-length mock papers under exam timing and mark them against the rubric.

Revisit every logged error from weeks 1 to 7 and restate the corrected rule from memory.

Condense all ten domains into a two-page final revision sheet of triggers and exceptions.

Rehearse exam strategy: time allocation, question selection, and answer structure for each paper format.