1. The Law Tripos shall consist of three Parts: Part Ia, Part Ib, and Part II.
2. A student may be a candidate for honours in Part Ia if he or she has kept one term, provided that three complete terms have not passed after his or her first term of residence.
3. The following may be candidates for honours in Part Ib:
4. The Faculty Board of Law may grant to a student, who has passed with sufficient credit before coming into residence an examination in law the standard and scope of which are approved by the Faculty Board, the privilege of being a candidate for honours in Part Ib earlier than as aforesaid, provided that the student has kept one term.
5. Students who have obtained honours in Part Ib of the Law Tripos and have kept seven terms may be candidates for honours in Part II as follows:
6. In order to be a candidate for Part II under Regulation 5(a) a student shall produce evidence to the Secretary of the Faculty Board to demonstrate that during the academical year next before the year of candidature he or she satisfactorily completed a course of study in a member country of the European Community at a university approved for this purpose by the Faculty Board.
7. A student who wishes to study abroad in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 6 shall make application on a form approved by the Faculty Board and obtainable from the Faculty Office. An application shall be submitted through the student's Tutor to the Secretary of the Faculty Board so as to arrive not later than the end of the first quarter of the Michaelmas Term of the academical year next preceding that which the student proposes to spend abroad. The Secretary shall inform each student as soon as possible whether his or her application is approved.
8. A student who has obtained honours in Part Ib under Regulation 4 may be a candidate for honours in Part II,72 provided that he or she has kept four terms.
The Faculty Board may grant to a student, who has passed with sufficient credit before coming into residence an examination in law the standard and scope of which are approved by the Faculty Board, the privilege of being a candidate for honours in Part II earlier than as aforesaid and without having passed any examination after coming into residence, provided that the student has kept one term.
A student who has obtained honours in Part II under this regulation shall be qualified to proceed to the B.A. Degree when he or she has kept six terms, provided that a student who satisfies the Examiners for the LL.M. Examination before completing six terms’ residence, and who elects to proceed to the LL.M. Degree, shall not also be entitled to proceed to the B.A. Degree.
9. A candidate who, under arrangements approved by the Faculty Board of Law, has spent not less than six terms studying at the University of Paris II and has qualified for the degree of Maîtrise en droit of that University shall be deemed thereby to have obtained honours in Part II of the Law Tripos. A list containing the names of persons so qualified shall be certified by the Chairman of the Faculty Board of Law and published in the Reporter.
10. No student shall be a candidate for more than one Part, or for any Part and also for another Honours Examination, in the same term.
11. No student who has been a candidate for honours in any Part shall again be a candidate for honours in the same Part.
12. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 10, a student who is not eligible to be a candidate for honours shall be entitled, provided that he or she has kept four terms at least, to take the examination for either Part Ib or Part II as a candidate not for honours.
13. There shall be three separate bodies of Examiners, one for Part Ia, one for Part Ib, and one for Part II. For each Part, the Faculty Board shall nominate such number of Examiners as they shall deem sufficient to conduct the examination.
14. The Faculty Board shall have power to nominate one or more Assessors to examine in any of the subjects of the Tripos. Assessors shall be required to set the paper or papers in the subjects assigned to them and to present such written reports to the Examiners as may be required. Assessors may be summoned to meetings of the Examiners for the purpose of consultation and advice, but shall not be entitled to vote.
15. There shall be a separate class-list for each Part of the Tripos. In each list the names of the successful candidates shall be arranged in three classes, of which the second shall be divided into two divisions. The names in the first and third classes, and in each division of the second class, shall be arranged in alphabetical order. In each class-list a mark of distinction shall be affixed to the names of those candidates placed in the first class whose work is of special merit. In the class-list for Part II the symbol (e) shall be placed against the names of those candidates who have taken the examination under Regulation 5(a).
16. The names of candidates who have satisfied the Examiners under Regulation 12 shall be published in an alphabetical list headed ‘The following (who are not candidates for honours) have attained the honours standard’; and such candidates shall be deemed to have been granted an allowance towards the Ordinary B.A. Degree.
17. The Examiners may grant an allowance towards the Ordinary B.A. Degree to a candidate who has failed under Regulation 12 to attain the honours standard.
18. The papers for the Law Tripos which shall be divided into Groups I–IV shall be as follows:
Paper 1. |
Civil law I. |
Paper 2. |
Constitutional law. |
Paper 3. |
Criminal law. |
Paper 4. |
Law of tort. |
Paper 5. |
Paper 10. |
Law of contract. |
Paper 11. |
Land law. |
Paper 12. |
International law. |
Paper 13. |
Civil law II. |
Paper 20. |
Administrative law. |
Paper 21. |
Family law. |
Paper 22. |
Legal history. |
Paper 23. |
Criminology, sentencing, and the penal system (also serves as Paper Int. 6 of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos). |
Paper 25. |
Criminal procedure and criminal evidence. |
Paper 26. |
European Union law. |
Paper 42. |
Intellectual property. |
Paper 46. |
Comparative law. |
Paper 47. |
Jurisprudence. |
Paper 24. |
Equity. |
Paper 40. |
Commercial law. |
Paper 41. |
Labour law. |
Paper 43. |
Company law. |
Paper 44. |
Aspects of obligations. |
Paper 45. |
Conflict of laws. |
Paper 48. |
Prescribed subjects (half-papers). |
The Faculty Board shall have power, not later than the end of the Easter Term in the year preceding the examination to which they apply, to prescribe not more than twelve subjects for Paper 48, or to transfer any paper from Group II to Group III. Each paper shall be of three hours’ duration, except Paper 48, for each subject of which the examination shall consist of a half-paper of two hours’ duration.
19. A candidate for honours in Part Ia of the Tripos shall offer Papers 1–4 from Group 1, provided that a candidate who has been approved to follow a course at the University of Paris II under Regulation 9 and who intends to follow such a course shall offer Paper 5 instead of Paper 1.
20. A candidate for honours in Part Ib shall offer five papers chosen from among Papers 1, 2, and 4 and Groups II and III, provided that
21. A candidate for honours in Part II shall
provided that
22. A candidate who under Regulation 20(ii) or 21 chooses to substitute for one paper of Part Ib or Part II, respectively, participation in a seminar course together with submission of an essay on a prescribed subject, as provided in those regulations, shall be assessed by the Examiners for Part Ib or Part II, as applicable, after they have considered a report from the lecturer or lecturers appointed by the Faculty Board to conduct the seminar course. Candidates may be called for viva voce examination on the subject or subjects of any seminar course in which they have participated.
The procedure for prescribing the subject or subjects of a seminar course, for notifying a candidate's intention to participate in such a course, and for assessing that participation and the essay submitted in connection with the course, shall be as follows:
23. The Faculty Board of Law shall have power to issue from time to time supplementary regulations defining or limiting all or any of the subjects of examination, and determining the scope, character, and conditions of the papers and the credit that shall be assigned to each, and to amend or withdraw such regulations; provided that due care is taken to give sufficient notice of any supplementary regulation or of any amendment of an existing supplementary regulation.
1. The papers for the examination in Law for European Students shall be the papers set in Groups I–IV of the Law Tripos. Each candidate shall
2. A student may be a candidate for the Examination if he or she
provided that three complete terms have not passed after the student's first term of residence.
3. The Faculty Board shall nominate such number of Examiners as they shall deem sufficient, and shall have power to nominate one or more Assessors to the Examiners.
4. The names of candidates who have satisfied the Examiners shall be arranged in alphabetical order in a single class.