How To Read, Understand and Summarise Legal Cases Quickly

Why is it that nobody teaches you how to read legal cases as a law student? You get chucked in right at the deep end by law professors, who automatically expect you to know how to navigate these complicated passages of legal text and be able to analyse them effectively. Fortunately, there is a structured process that you can use to help you quickly find all the relevant details you need and summarise those cases into a few short bullet points!

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introduction
01:09 The Anatomy of Legal Cases
03:11 The Headnote of a Case
07:07 Finding the Ratio & Obiter
09:30 Summarising the Case

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ABOUT ME:
Hey, I'm Gareth. I'm a lawyer and lecturer from Oxford in the UK! I make videos to help law students with studying, exams, and unpacking all your questions about becoming a lawyer :)

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[charliethomson]

Aussie law student here. I cannot thank you enough for these videos and your effort into them. I'm in my second year of law school and after an abysmal semester due to overworking at my day job (which I have now left in order to recover my grades), your videos have been my saving grace to help me lay the foundations for my grade recovery. Thank you for your advice and everything you do.

[quangminhdang]

I am an Accounting student from an Aussie uni, I’ve just selected a law course on company and finance. I’ve got no idea about law analysis apart from preping income statement, journal entries, cashlow and whatnot. Now I’m faced with an assignment about lega issues, rules and application, recommendation, research (case law from westlaw and other reputable sources) and conclusion. I was so clouded at the time.

Thank you so much!

[adecrowshaw]

Gareth, As a first year law under grad, you have no idea how useful this video has been to me. Thank you for uploading!

[mbalivilakazi]

Hey Gareth, thank you for the break down. Im in South Africa and studying LLB and i found very few people can break ot down

[yazeedpatel]

South African law student here. This helped so much. 2 years in and I'm only learning this now lol

[cricket_my_passion]

they didn't tell us because we had a legend like you

[powerpointpresentationsand]

Thanks for providing us with such professional guidance, and detailed explanations of this process. The tips are really helpful. I will watch your other videos and click the like option.👍

[canadianevr]

This is fantastic. I am curious about how different the setup of cases is in Canada vs the UK. I am looking for something like this but with a Canadian case example. I will keep looking, but I love how you show the actual case and break it down. Thanks!

[HamidSpencer]

You Mr. Gateth is awesome! thanks fot sharing this content, really. It is indeed on-point.

I would appreciate any advise or some sort of help from you as im tryna self-study the 7 core law modules prior to taking up the SQEs.

Best wishes, !

[wmiu]

Thank you so much! It's really helpful!

[princesssairoque]

hi, I'm trying to succeed in law school and I find your videos very helpful to me as I don't have any background whatsoever and I don't know what I'm doing. I need to read 15 cases before orientation and mock class and I'm trying to get tips from your videos. 4:46 you said there's a subtle difference but I can't really see or understand what it is. Can you elaborate? that would be a great help!

[ClaraCarmona]

I want to be a lawyer in London!!! Help me!! 😍😍😍

[jaylopez]

Great video! lol but I sat here confused as to why my cases were formatted differently...Fast forward, I just realized you are from another country....I hope this isn't a sign of what kind of lawyer I'm going to be lmao.

[MazvitaMasanzu]

Can you please
Make a video on Mooting

[betelgeuse]

What was the app called? I couldn't catch it @10:08

[stayblessed]

I need help with my assignments with small health law case, can any one help 😫

[leratomadisa]

Please help I'm honestly struggling

[aditya-opxh]

Hey, will you be able to personally guide me on 1-1 basis on video?

[masnde]

Share an example of a case where you have experienced that law can contribute to a harmonious and peaceful society.

HOW DO I TACKLE THIS QUESTION?