If there’s one thing I was looking forward to in the law exam, it was the entertainment to be found in the questions themselves. They are, very simply, sheer ingenuity.
Sometimes I wonder if Zen set the questions as such just to steer us off course – strike out the unimportant bits and all the dialogue and there you are… the bare facts of the case laid out in half a page instead of two.
It would be a waste to not reproduce, at least the past years’ papers (or part thereof), here:
Camden Council, a London-based local Government owns two apartments which it rents to Mary Smith, Karen Jones, Billy West and Mike Tyson. One night Mary and Karen held a party in which their long term unemployed boyfriends Mick Jager and Paul Cartney had a few too many drinks…
DeutscheChemicals (DC) Plc Chemical plant is the leading employer in the Birmingham area. Its owner Harry Prince is seen by the people of Birmingham as an outstanding citizen and, perhaps, as a future leader of State. None of them know that Harry has been leading a double life as Dictator of a terror organization with the sole aim of restoring monarchies to their former glory through a new world government… … entrusted the care of the factory to his environmental permit expert Al Fed… a world-renowned environmental chemist and member of Greenpeace but he has a real weakness for female companionship…
I opted to write a legal opinion for a case regarding genetically-modified pink minks which unfortunately escaped – ultimately causing an environmental disaster – while their owners Brittle Speers and Jessica Simpleton (having given up making music) were watching Teletubbies at Robbie Millions’ farm.
The other question was to do with some nuisance case involving Brad Spit and Joly Angry filming for Mr and Mrs Smith II, and Borat (who secretly has Joly Angry as the love of his life)… but that question was far too confusing (what with the love stories and Kazakhstan-manufactured soundproof headphones) for me to make any [legal] sense of. The final option was dead-serious (biofuels and the GATT/WTO rules) so that was just boring.
It sounds fun and all, but when it’s really not when you’re to link them up with legal codes and develop an argument!
So that was Law – it’ll be Stats next on Friday.
