SQE1 Prep — The Audio Course

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  Courts and the Judiciary — SQE1 FLK1 Legal System 24.08.2026 18นาที

  A newspaper says the Supreme Court has struck down an Act of Parliament; your client's licence depends on whether that can be true.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Civil courts, the four tracks, and the three High Court divisionsOffence classification decides the court, and the either-way election is the defendant'sSupreme Court powers, and why a declaration of incompatibility changes nothingTribunals, judicial independence, and the partial separation of powersWho regulates whom, and when to settle out of courtNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Doctrine of Precedent — SQE1 FLK1 Legal System 24.08.2026 19นาที

  A Court of Appeal ruling matches your client's case almost exactly, and the one fact that differs is why the judge can decide against him.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Vertical and horizontal stare decisis, and which courts bind whichRatio binds, obiter persuades, and how to tell them apartThe Practice Statement 1966 and when the Supreme Court departsThe three Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co exceptions, per incuriam includedOverruling, distinguishing, reversing and disapproving, kept apartNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Primary Legislation — SQE1 FLK1 Legal System 24.08.2026 24นาที

  A minister and an Act of Parliament can impose exactly the same speed limit, and only one of them can be destroyed in court.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Dicey's three principles, implied repeal, and why entrenchment failsGreen and White Papers, the five stages, and commencementDelegated legislation, the parent Act, and ultra vires in substance or procedureRetained EU law became assimilated law, ordinary domestic legislationThe Human Rights Act ladder, and why a declaration changes nothingNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Statutory Interpretation — SQE1 FLK1 Legal System 24.08.2026 19นาที

  A trader puts a price ticket on something the law says she must not offer for sale, and whether she is guilty turns entirely on what the word offer already means.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Literal, golden, mischief and purposive: what triggers each approachIntrinsic and extrinsic aids, and the three Pepper v Hart conditionsInterpretation Act 1978 defaults and the five rebuttable presumptionsEjusdem generis, noscitur a sociis, expressio unius: the rules for listsWelsh legislation has its own regime and two texts of equal standingNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Judicial Review — SQE1 FLK1 Legal System 24.08.2026 23นาที

  A residents' association files inside the three months everyone told them they had, and can still lose the claim before anyone argues the law.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Judicial review polices how a decision was made, never what was decidedAmenability turns on the character of the decision, not the decision-makerPromptness is a separate requirement hiding behind the three-month limitFour grounds, and proportionality is not a fifthEvery remedy is discretionary, and s.31(2A) can defeat a winnerNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Constitutional Foundations — SQE1 FLK1 Legal System 24.08.2026 22นาที

  A minister spends three weeks attacking her own government's decision on television, a citizen goes to the High Court, and the court will do nothing at all.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Conventions bind politically and are never enforced, even in statutory formThe Crown is the executive; the monarch acts on ministerial advicePrerogative is residual, displaced by statute, and reviewable by subject matterArticle 9 protects proceedings in Parliament, not everything a member doesProcessions can be conditioned widely and banned; assemblies only three waysNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Formation of a Contract — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 23นาที

  A price tag in a shop window, cash counted out on the counter, and a shop owner who is still perfectly free to say no.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Offers and invitations to treat, and why the line decides everythingHow offers die, and what a counter-offer destroysWhen acceptance takes effect, the postal rule and its limitsTwo presumptions on intention, and how each is rebuttedCertainty of terms, minors, mental capacity and corporate capacityNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Consideration and Promissory Estoppel — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 20นาที

  A supplier promises a loyal customer 20 per cent off for a year, then changes its mind, and English law sides with the supplier.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Consideration must be sufficient in law, but need not be adequatePast consideration fails unless requested on an understanding of paymentPractical benefit buys extra pay, but never part paymentPart payment of a debt is no satisfaction of the wholePromissory estoppel is a shield, and it suspends rather than destroysNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Privity and Third Party Rights — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 20นาที

  A nephew is named in an agreement, promised £5,000, and can recover nothing, because of a single line the sisters' solicitor put in.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Only parties can enforce; the burden side of privity never movedAgency, assignment, collateral contract, trust and tort are the common law routess.1(1)(a) express right, s.1(1)(b) conferred benefit, s.1(2) rebuts itRights crystallise on communicated assent or known reliance, then need consentMost commercial contracts exclude the Act, so look for the clauseNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Express Terms and Incorporation — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 19นาที

  A signature binds you to every word you never read, and one question asked at the counter can undo it.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Four tests separate a contractual term from a mere representationA signature binds you to terms you never readNotice must come before contracting, in a genuinely contractual documentOnerous clauses need a red hand, not ordinary small printCollateral contracts are the way round the parol evidence ruleNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Implied Terms and Exemption Clauses — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 24นาที

  The law writes terms into your contract that nobody agreed to, and then refuses to let you write them out again.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Necessity implies a term in fact; reasonableness never doesTerms implied in law attach to a type of relationshipSale of Goods Act for businesses, Consumer Rights Act for consumersExemption clauses face incorporation, then construction, then statutory validityDeath or personal injury by negligence can never be excludedNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Classification and Interpretation of Terms — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 23นาที

  A crane sits idle for seven weeks, the builder writes ending the hire, and that letter turns out to be the more expensive mistake.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Conditions terminate, warranties pay damages, innominate terms depend on the breachSale of Goods Act conditions, and the Consumer Rights Act tiered remediesInterpretation is objective, negotiations are excluded, clear words usually winRectification corrects the document, not the bargain it recordsVariation needs consideration, and no oral modification clauses workNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Misrepresentation — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 23นาที

  The dealer says one previous owner, the car has had four, and nothing about owners is in the written agreement, which is exactly why the claim works.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Fact or opinion turns on who was placed to knowSilence is safe until a half-truth or a changed circumstanceInvestigating defeats inducement; being able to investigate does notSection 2(1) reverses the burden and pays on the fraud measureShort of fraud, the rescission clock starts at the contractNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Mistake, Duress, Undue Influence and Illegality — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 23นาที

  A rogue buys a car with a cheque that bounces and sells it on before anyone notices, and whether your client ever sees it again turns on a single word.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Void or voidable decides who keeps the goodsCommon mistake must make performance essentially and radically differentIdentity voids a contract; attributes only make it voidableDuress and undue influence are voidable, so affirmation destroys the remedyIllegality now turns on a range of factors, not a rigid ruleNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Discharge of Contract — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 22นาที

  A gardener does half the job and walks away, and the law hands him nothing, while a decorator who hangs one strip of wallpaper crooked is paid almost in full.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:The entire obligations rule and its four escape routesSubstantial performance turns on the size of the defectsRepudiatory breach gives an election: terminate or affirmFrustration is automatic, narrow, and never self-inducedThe 1943 Act adjusts money paid and benefits conferredNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Remedies, Causation and Remoteness — SQE1 FLK1 Contract Law 24.08.2026 23นาที

  A caterer walks away three weeks before the wedding, and the one number the couple can recover explains almost everything contract damages do.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Expectation is the primary measure; reliance is the fallback, never an additionCausation is but for; remoteness is the two limbs of HadleyCost of cure gives way to difference in value when disproportionateMitigation caps recovery, and the defendant carries that burdenEquitable remedies are discretionary and need damages to be inadequateNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Duty of Care — SQE1 FLK1 Tort Law 24.08.2026 22นาที

  A woman bites into a cereal bar she was given rather than bought, and the law lets her sue a manufacturer she has never dealt with.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:The neighbour principle, and why no contract is neededCaparo's three limbs, and why Robinson stopped you running themOmissions, and the four exceptions that create a dutyPrimary and secondary victims, and the Alcock control mechanismsWhen policy shuts duty out, and when it does notNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Breach of Duty — SQE1 FLK1 Tort Law 24.08.2026 22นาที

  A driver with thirty years and no accidents judged 35 miles an hour to be a safe speed for him, and the law had already stopped listening.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:The standard is objective; what the defendant thought safe is irrelevantChildren and unknown impairment bend it; inexperience and mental illness do notBolam, then Bolitho's logic check, then Montgomery for disclosure of riskWeigh likelihood, gravity, cost, social value and common practiceRes ipsa infers negligence but never shifts the legal burdenNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Causation — SQE1 FLK1 Tort Law 24.08.2026 20นาที

  A hospital sends a dying man home without a doctor seeing him, admits it was careless, and still pays nothing.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:The but-for test, and what to do when it failsRemoteness turns on the type of damage, never its extentWhen medical, claimant, third-party or natural acts break the chainMaterial contribution and the narrow asbestos exceptionThe eggshell skull rule, and its one real limitNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.
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  Remoteness and Damage — SQE1 FLK1 Tort Law 24.08.2026 23นาที

  Proving the defendant caused the harm is not the end of it, because the law still decides which harms count and what they are worth.Practise this topic with exam-style questions: sqe1prep.co.ukIn this episode:Only the type of damage must be foreseeable, not its extentPrimary victims skip the Alcock criteria; secondary victims never doA death produces two claims: the dependants' and the estate'sSpecial damages are past and provable; general damages are estimatedThe bereavement award reaches a very narrow class of claimantNarrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at sqe1prep.co.uk. Educational content only — not legal advice. SQE1 Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SRA or Kaplan.