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law definitionAre you one of the 17,000 students about to embark on a law course in the UK? Why not get your teeth stuck into our quiz to find out how clued up you are before you start at university? We have so many preconceptions about the law from what we see on the TV and through films — but how much do you really know?

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Martin Partington is Emeritus Professor of Law, Bristol University and author of Introduction to the English Legal System 2013-2014, Eighth Edition. For 5 years, he was Law Commissioner, and was retained by the Law Commission as a special consultant in order to complete its major programme of work on the reform of housing law until 2008. He was a special consultant to the Leggatt Review of Tribunals in 2001. He has been a member of numerous committees and bodies working within the English Legal System. In 2011-2012 he was a consultant to the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons. He was appointed CBE in 2002, elected a Bencher of Middle Temple in 2006, and made an honorary Queens Counsel in 2008.

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  1. Joanne

    Hi there

    Loved the quiz! But is there not now a Northern Ireland Law Commission http://www.nilawcommission.gov.uk/?

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