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AQA A Level Law

Syllabus 7162 · For teaching from September 2017 onwards, A-level exams 2019 onwards · sourced from AQA — official A-level Law (7162) specification PDF, verified 2026-08-21.

  1. 1. The nature of law and the English legal system

    • Nature of law
    • Nature of law: law and society
    • Nature of law: law and morality
    • Nature of law: law and justice
    • The rule of law
    • Law making: parliamentary law making
    • Law making: delegated legislation
    • Law making: statutory interpretation
    • Law making: judicial precedent
    • Law making: law reform
    • Law making: the European Union
    • The legal system: the civil courts and other forms of dispute resolution
    • The legal system: the criminal courts and lay people
    • The legal system: legal personnel and the judiciary
    • The legal system: access to justice and funding

  2. 2. Criminal law

    • The rules of criminal law
    • Theory in criminal law
    • General elements of liability
    • Fatal offences against the person
    • Non-fatal offences against the person
    • Property offences
    • Preliminary offence
    • Capacity defences
    • Necessity defences

  3. 3. Tort

    • The rules of tort law
    • Theory of tort law
    • Liability in negligence for physical injury to people and damage to property
    • Liability in negligence for economic loss and psychiatric injury
    • Occupiers' liability
    • Nuisance and the escape of dangerous things
    • Vicarious liability
    • Defences
    • Remedies

  4. 4. Law of contract

    • The rules of contract law
    • Theory of contract law
    • Essential requirements of contract
    • Contract terms: general
    • Contract terms: specific terms implied by statute law in relation to consumer contracts
    • Contract terms: exclusion clauses
    • Vitiating factors
    • Discharge of a contract
    • Remedies

  5. 5. Human Rights

    • Rules in Human Rights law
    • Theory in Human Rights
    • Human Rights in international law
    • Human Rights in the United Kingdom prior to the Human Rights Act 1998
    • Human Rights in the United Kingdom after the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998
    • The European Convention on Human Rights 1953
    • Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights 1953
    • Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights 1953
    • Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights 1953
    • Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights 1953
    • Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights 1953
    • Restrictions
    • Enforcement
    • Human Rights and English law
    • Reform