For all you guys that work in Law

paradisiac · 13 Jul 2012 at 01:20

ok, so I am trying to find some audio books to help me study, but all I can find are things like sum and substance, which is American. I know their laws differ immensely, so listening to these would probably do more harm than good. so do any of you guys know of any English audio books or audio learning aids?

Ahleckz · 13 Jul 2012 at 01:22

That's awfully vague, what area of law are you interested in?

paradisiac · 13 Jul 2012 at 01:24

Ahleckz said:
That's awfully vague, what area of law are you interested in?

Conveyance. Although any Law based ones would be useful as around here there are very few Council Licensed Conveyance places, most work as Conveyance Solicitors, so I think if I can have a knowledge on other areas too it would stand me in good stead.

Ahleckz · 13 Jul 2012 at 01:39

Ah right, can't help with that property sort of stuff. Sorry.

paradisiac · 13 Jul 2012 at 01:59

that's ok. also anything on Civil and Tort Law would be good too.

paradisiac · 13 Jul 2012 at 08:22

Moses said:
Look on iTunes U.

Why does it have to audiobooks? What's the purpose of this?

I find audio book easier than reading as I can have them on whilst getting on with housework and stuff.

I want to try and learn about as much as I can before the course starts so I can get through it quicker.

paradisiac · 18 Jul 2012 at 20:01

the irony. ordered 'Law in a Box : Conveyancing Studying Pack' from amazon, and it arrived today. great, but, and this is the ironic part, its a pirated version, and not a very good one at that. box printing is shoddy and isn't even the right size. selling a potential Law student, a Law related disc, that is highly illegal, do these people not think at all?

Ahleckz · 18 Jul 2012 at 20:18

Makes sense, have you seen the price of law books! Digital (pirated) copies were passed around my classes quite commonly.

Skull · 18 Jul 2012 at 20:21

paradisiac said:
ok, so I am trying to find some audio books to help me study, but all I can find are things like sum and substance, which is American. I know their laws differ immensely, so listening to these would probably do more harm than good. so do any of you guys know of any English audio books or audio learning aids?

I doubt you'll find many law textbooks that have been translated into audiobooks because of the cost of doing it and the lack of customers, but what you might consider doing is purchasing kindle versions of textbooks (much more readily available) and then using the kindle's text-to-voice features to have it read to you.

Won't sound particularly natural but you'll get used to the robot voice and should be able to get the hang of general principles.

paradisiac · 18 Jul 2012 at 20:25

Skull said:
I doubt you'll find many law textbooks that have been translated into audiobooks because of the cost of doing it and the lack of customers, but what you might consider doing is purchasing kindle versions of textbooks (much more readily available) and then using the kindle's text-to-voice features to have it read to you.

Won't sound particularly natural but you'll get used to the robot voice and should be able to get the hang of general principles.

I didn't think of this, that might actually be an idea.

J-FRO · 18 Jul 2012 at 21:29

Hmm you need to be careful when and where you're buying your stuff. There's often new laws coming into force all the time and you may find you buy a textbook/audiobook and by the time you start your course some of its content could be old.

When does your course start and what course is it?

paradisiac · 18 Jul 2012 at 21:41

J-FRO said:
Hmm you need to be careful when and where you're buying your stuff. There's often new laws coming into force all the time and you may find you buy a textbook/audiobook and by the time you start your course some of its content could be old.

When does your course start and what course is it?

im still undecided on whether I want to do the ILEX Level 3 (focusing on conveyance) or the CLC (Council License Conveyance) course. I can start whenever I can find the funding.
I appreciate it might be out of date slightly, but the basics should still be the same, so I would just need to learn the amendments.

Skull · 18 Jul 2012 at 22:00

paradisiac said:
im still undecided on whether I want to do the ILEX Level 3 (focusing on conveyance) or the CLC (Council License Conveyance) course. I can start whenever I can find the funding.
I appreciate it might be out of date slightly, but the basics should still be the same, so I would just need to learn the amendments.

Employment law changes quickly but for tort, contract and especially property the law is older than most houses. As someone doing pre-course reading you'd be fine getting something from within the last 3-4 years.

paradisiac · 18 Jul 2012 at 22:03

Skull said:
Employment law changes quickly but for tort, contract and especially property the law is older than most houses. As someone doing pre-course reading you'd be fine getting something from within the last 3-4 years.

the cd I got from amazon is from 2007, so but it has links to upgraded written stuff from CONSILIO, so that should help a bit.

Ahleckz · 19 Jul 2012 at 00:08

J-FRO said:
Hmm you need to be careful when and where you're buying your stuff. There's often new laws coming into force all the time and you may find you buy a textbook/audiobook and by the time you start your course some of its content could be old.

When does your course start and what course is it?

Tell me about it, I had to resit EU law. Boom, another £30 odd quid on an uptodate Blackstones.