http://clponlinemy.wixsite.com/mysite/sing...our-CLP-answersWays to improve your CLP answersCertificate of legal practice (CLP), a certificate that many law students detest despite the fact that it’s one of the common tickets available for a law student to step into another stage. There are quite a number of useful articles or study tips available in the web for a student to ponder upon when sitting for CLP exam. This article is meant to add into the lists of the study tips available. Please do not take them as gospel truth and follow blindly as there are no hard and fast rule in passing the exam.
a) Your target audience members are judges, legal practitioners, legal academicians who practice before.
Every CLP students have to recognize the fact legal professional audience has different characteristics compare to legal academicians. It is largely depends on your emphasis rather than fundamentals of the process. The emphasis here equates to your analytical skills.
The practitioner examiners' main concern is not about the substantive law evolving in that area questioned. They are testing your knowledge on how are you going to advise or do when such a circumstance or situation arises. The reasons underpinning such rules are important but they are less interested in the abstract theory. For eg in the topic of non-compliance, the examiners not only want to know the comment on implications of the non-compliance cases, a discussion of the rationale of the decision will be valuable in order to perform a view as to how practice is going to develop and whether judges will maintain the very strict approach to non-compliance. Any socio-legal or socio-economic arguments need to be avoided at all costs when answering the CLP questions.
Practitioners do have the time to consider whether the ruling is right or wrong. The essence of your answer shall focus on the type of problem and how you will solve them with your knowledge on the procedural law.
b) Read Judgments
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Read judgments without fail every single day will definitely help. The style of writings will change along the way without you realising it and most importantly you will know how to write like a practitioner and not academicians. This in long run will also help you to correct your legal terminology and polish your language.
c) Cite the cases’ citations
The first thing that a student want to do is to impress the examiners on how dedicated you are in reading law. Citing case law citations in you answer will definitely be able to put you in a better bracket in impressing your examiners. Just focus on few important cases together with their citations may become handy during the exams.
d) Answer all the questions
Do not take chances to leave any questions unanswered during exam because if you cannot answer all the questions on time, you are equivalent to an incompetent practitioner.
e) Start to prepare early
Do not wait until 2 months before exam only start to flip your notes/case law because it’s too late and psychologically will be influenced by lack of time. Your mind will not be able to absorb so much things in such short span of time.
f) Relate your authorities to the facts in issue
Try to avoid regurgitate what you have memorised in model answers. Always put a “bridging” sentences between your relevant authorities or principles and the facts in issue.
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