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Land Economy Tripos, 2000: Notice

The Board of Land Economy give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2000, the form of the examination for the Land Economy Tripos will be changed as follows:

Unless otherwise specified, within each paper all questions will carry equal weight, and within each question all parts will carry equal weight.

Where candidates are permitted to use their own materials, such copies must contain no annotations other than internal cross-references, amendments to the text of statutes, and non-literary or non-numerical markings (e.g. underlining, circling, or expression marks). Candidates infringing this rule may be required to surrender their copy and may be reported for the infringement. Except for essential valuation tables, candidates who have to surrender their copy will not be provided with replacement material to use in the examination.

The only models of electronic calculators that candidates will be permitted to take into the examination room will be the CASIO fx-100D, the CASIO fx-115 (any version), or the CASIO fx-570 (any version). Each such calculator must be marked in the approved fashion. Candidates may not bring into the examination external media associated with any calculator, such as instruction manuals, magnetic cards, or memory modules, but they may bring spare batteries. Candidates are warned that the Examiners are not prepared to make allowances, when marking, for the malfunction of a candidate's calculator for whatever reason.

Group I

Paper 2. Public law

This paper will contain no fewer than eight questions, of which candidates will be required to answer four.

Paper 4. Land, environment, and structural change

This paper will contain no fewer than ten questions, of which candidates will be required to answer three. Candidates will be provided with copies of essential statistical tables in the examination room.

Group III

Paper 8. The law of real property: legal principles, policy, and economic implications

This paper will contain no fewer than seven questions, of which candidates will be required to answer four. Candidates will be permitted to use their own copies of Butterworth's Property Law Handbook (any edition and in one or two volumes), and either Sweet and Maxwell's Property Statutes (any edition) or Blackstone's Property Statutes (any edition).

Group IV

Paper 11. Land and urban economics

This paper will contain no fewer than eight questions, from which candidates will be required to answer three.

Group V

Paper 13. Landlord and tenant law

This paper will be divided into two sections. Section A will contain four questions on the common law of leases and of the rights and obligations of the parties to leases. Section B will contain four questions on homelessness and on the statutory regulation of residential, business, and agricultural tenancies. Candidates will be required to attempt four questions, two from each section. Candidates will be permitted to use their own copies of:

(1) Butterworth's Landlord and Tenant Handbook (any edition and in one or two volumes)
(2) Blackstone's Statutes on Landlord and Tenant (any edition)
(3) either Sweet and Maxwell's Property Law Statutes (any edition) or Blackstone's Property Law Statutes (any edition)
(4) the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 (but only unmarked single copies, including photocopies).

Paper 14. Urban and environmental planning

This paper will contain ten questions, of which candidates will be expected to answer four.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 1 December 1999
Copyright © 1999 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.