 Hi, I'm Casey, and I'm from Edinburgh. Hi, I'm Scott, and I'm from the Midlands. Hi, I'm Robbie, I'm from London, and we're all first year lawyers at St Catherine's. It's quarter to ten, it's a Monday morning, we're breakfast lectures. Let's go. Hey, we're just so on the light of lectures, I'm just going to grab some breakfast and smiley, it's the best sandwich hop in the world, because it's cheap and they do great canyons. So Scott, are you doing any brewing today? I'm going to try and get a bit on the river at some point, yeah. The end of term, like on a brewing season, we finished last week, but we're still doing like some outings here and there. Robbie, what college sport do you do? Yeah, I do rugby, which is what I had a rugby dinner last night. We're playing a bit of squash as well, but not really, not on a competitive level, but it's nice to get some exercise in. Do you find plenty of time to do sport as well? Yeah, obviously the academic side of it is quite heavy workload, but that's why we're at Cambridge, so you've got to expect that. Yeah, most people manage to do a couple of other things as well as work. I mean you'll hopefully see today that my life isn't just about law. So how often do we have lectures? Every day. Every day, not on weekends like some others though, so it's all fine. We're not scientists, so we don't have Saturday morning lectures. Yeah, I see, in comparison, sometimes we don't have that much contact time. So we have two lectures a day today, tomorrow and Wednesday, and Thursday and Friday we only have one lecture a day. First term we had a few more. Yeah, we have a slightly lesser term probably because we'll focus on individual work, but then next term's the same, we lose even more lectures next term, and it goes down a bit more on the bare-skinned edge over here, because obviously next term is exactly the same. Scary. Yeah, it's going to be fun, fun, fun. So this morning we have a constitutional lecture and a torx lecture. Constitutional law is about how power is controlled in any country. Quite political. Yeah, it's about the politics, kind of like mixture of politics and human rights, and that's something that's really interesting. Civil wrongs, things like negligence. People hurting each other but not in a criminal way. It's quite interesting, you don't know much about that when you come to a law school. Once you're here you find out there's so much more than just criminal law. It's quite good to learn about it, it's really interesting. So we've got two hours of lectures. You can join us in there, we'll show you a bit of that. They're an hour each. Not too bad, don't fall asleep. Shall we go? I've just found Sarah Beth, she's just come into the faculty. She's a third year lawyer at Katz and she's my college grandma. Oh, family time there. Family time, family time. So yeah, we all get a mum and a dad who look after you there in the year above you and they've equally had a mum and dad in their third year. So we have quite a college bond you get. So Katie's my sister, she's the one filming at the moment and this is my college grandma. What lectures do you have today? Yeah, we're excited. Three, gosh, that's what happens when you get into third year in the afternoon. Oh, fine, great. Thank you for speaking to us. Enjoy. Finally again on the tone of the article, Baroness Hale in her speech returned to this. She said that the Warped Street Journal is not a newspaper with an interested publishing sensation of information. It is a gravely serious paper. Indeed, some might find it seriously dull. We need more such serious journalism in this country and defamation law should encourage rather than discourage it. Now, Lord Justice Sedley has commented on this in a later case and said surely Baroness Hale has meant that the Reynolds defence is a price for bland journalism. So this is the difficulty I think in focusing on her. Is it sensational? Is it does tend to say which you're very boring people like the Warped Street Journal? You can rely on the defence, but if you're the son or the news of the world, RIP, then you can't. Anyway, Rosemary West argued that hostile, very hostile, pre-trial press coverage had prejudiced the trial. So the newspapers were things like House of Horrors, you know, the evil couple. So you can imagine, they're pretty lurid headlines. Okay, so we've just come out of lectures. We're at Tours and Constitutional this morning. And we're just waiting for Robbie, as you can see, he's quite a bit more busy now because people are going into lectures. Now we're going to take the scene through home so you can see a bit more of Cambridge and some of the colleges. How are your lectures today? Yeah, they were really good. Our Constitutional lecture was really interesting. We were doing about where newspapers are allowed to publish and whether that's contempt of court. They're talking about trials while they're happening. That's really interesting. And in Tours, we were talking about how you can get damages for defaming someone or libeling someone. So publishing untrue statements about them or saying things that would decrease the reputation of someone. Interesting. Yeah, and then obviously we were doing about the Millie Dowler trials, about Levison and all things that are really relevant at the moment that we hear about in the news every day, and then we come and study it here. So yeah, it's really interesting. So we're about to go inside the law, the Square Law Library. It's a really good place to work. We don't work there as much because College Library is so familiar to us, but it's really great if you want a bit of a change of scene. You can generally be quite productive here. It's really light, there's like the whole side of the building so it's really nice. And there's pretty much any book you could ever imagine for law. Any book you could ever want for law is here. It's unusual, but hopefully it'll lie and make all the colleges really pretty. 10 minutes later and the snow's completely stopped, the sun's gone out, it's a lovely day again. Classic Cambridge fashion, the weather is up and down. But we're just going to have a wander past the University Library now so you can see it. It's one of the only copyright libraries in the country. It's only three. So what does a copyright library mean? It means that it's got a copy of every book ever published in the UK. Which is pretty cool. Which is pretty damn cool. So here's the UL, absolutely massive. Loads of researchers and academics from around the world come and use this place. So you kind of bump into the strange people you've seen off the TV doing academic shows. That's quite cool. But yeah, so it's normally really busy but it's absolutely beautiful inside. They're really old. What you kind of think of as a Cambridge Library. Yeah. Should we head back to college? Yeah, so back to college. Ready? So this is Clare College. It's really peaceful. As you can see it's quite a nice little courtyard. It's really nice to come through to different colleges. Yeah, it's like you get to see really good architecture and stuff. Here we have Holy Groove Sick Forms. Holy Groove Sick Forms. And Clare College. That's one thing you definitely need to get used to in Cambridge. Lots of tourists and lots of school groups. We do lots of access work. So through colleges you generally get a lot of sick forms coming around that you get to take for lunch and show space and stuff. Which is really nice. So I run here quite a lot. It's really great actually in Cambridge for running. It's really good for jogging to take time out and studying. It's a fast way to get a good exercise I guess. And it's really beautiful. Especially in the sunshine. It's quite nice actually. We also have a college gym in terms of exercise. Which is pretty handy. It's quite good just to... I don't know if you've got a long essay to do or something. You can sort of take half an hour out on the gym and sort of de-stress which is good. Most colleges have college gyms. So generally that's a nice place to go for a great good evening. And here we have the Back of Kings. Which is pretty scenic. Especially in the sun. Do I need to punt through that? Yeah there's one up there. There's a punt down there as well. Punting is something that you can get up to in Cambridge. So, Bumps. Bumps is the most famous rowing saga. So yeah Bumps is basically you have series of 17 boats racing down of course all at one and a half boat that's apart. And the point of it is for you to crash all boats into the person of the college of the boats in front of you. Hence the name Bumps. So it's over four days. It's a really good social occasion for everyone else who doesn't row. So the whole college will go down. That's when you see the collegiate sort of thing. Yeah, the college just seems very cool. I love hopping this way. We should do it more often. It's quite nice isn't it? Here's King's Chapel. A nice place to live next to. And we're just going to go grab some lunch after that. Just in Hull which is what. How often do we go to Hull for lunch? Most days, yeah. It's really reasonably priced and it's also good to see everyone because everyone has just come out from lectures and everyone has a day going before everyone gets down to do some work and go after supervision. So that's what we're going to do. I think we're going to go to Hull get some work done, go to supervision and then see what happens after that. Let's do it. Let's go. Are you looking forward to your supervision Katie? Yeah, I am. I need to put all these papers off because it's almost a bit stressful. I like supervision. Originally they were quite intimidating experiences because in school you never really have the opportunity to talk with academics the way that we do. But yeah, they're really good. There's a lot of work for them as long as you get it done. And it's always good to have like an academic chat with the person who's writing your exam and writing the textbook that people all around the country are using. Yeah, you definitely get the videos in the field here as she does her science. Robbie, what do you like about supervision? I like the fact that you can talk about stuff that you haven't understood. Usually with a person that's either written a textbook or read them articles that you've had to read which is pretty cool and you wouldn't get that at a lot of the academic institutions so that's a bit of a bonus. And yeah, make sure that you've understood what you've been studying. It is good because it keeps you in check and makes sure that you do work. The challenges here as well. When you go and you think you know the topic and it turns out you might miss something like a maybe small detail like something a bit bigger, big but either way they're usually quite understanding if you've done the work they will be happy to help. It's cool though, we get to go to different colleges. Understandably they, yeah, we get to go to different colleges. Our supervision today is at Jesus College which is a cycle ride away. Now I'm ready. The file is ready. We need to talk about criminal law. It's going to be great. Okay, so it's five minutes until our supervision. We've cycled to Jesus here and on here and so we'll make our way to Dr. Stark's room and get on with our supervision. Well, if we just start off then by defining self-defense. So can anyone give me a definition of self-defense in one sentence please? One sentence. Use the use of reasonable force to defend oneself in circumstances when someone's using force against you. So when someone is using force against us what do we say about our force in return? It has to be reasonable. It has to be reasonable and also necessary. So if we want to sort of condense that down we'd say a necessary and proportionate force to a threat. I mean they've started to go further now so that proposal that I gave you which is about household attacks. So you wake up in the middle of the night and you think someone's in your house what do the government want you to be able to use in those circumstances? Force isn't grossly disproportionate. So we can use disproportionate force. What do you think of that proposal? It seems it might be popular It'll be popular around households but then it's kind of there's a problem with infringing the rights of the burglar if you're allowed to just use any force that means you can kind of like what's to say that you can't sort of kill them if that's not considered grossly and that's maybe the issue of the violation of life, right to life. Okay so you're thinking of funeral lyrics aren't they there? Okay so why does she think English self-defence law is incompatible with Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights? So we just had our supervision with Dr Star. How did it go? Yeah it was good actually. It clarified quite a lot of things. Yeah I thought so. Some shops, heifers, it's the bookshop that we would go books from at the start of term. As you can see the streets are quite narrow and they're also really busy here on weekends and stuff it's quite nice. We finished our Dr Star supervision in Greminal at Jesus earlier which these guys both had their supervision before us and then yeah so we've had Paul and Ethan and now we've just come for a drink to chat through how everyone's been and catch up on the day and in law essays written tasks you get either a conventional essay asking you a question like blah blah blah, discuss. Is the law aren't relating to negligence good enough? Yeah, discuss. Or you get a whole convoluted legal issue that you have to solve where you have to apply the law and it's can be quite difficult at times. Definitely there's no I don't have a personal preference between essays and problem questions I don't think to any on the subject really. I think common questions here are quite aesthetic and more like practical. Yeah I suppose yeah. If you know the law you can do it. You can think about why the law isn't whether it should be to end up criticizing the law which is good. Yeah it's good for your understanding as a law student of why people should criminalize things or why people should be liable to each other but it's also quite difficult because you're criticizing somebody it's clearly based in good rationale it's not quite good enough really. Yeah. It's really satisfying when you get to the end of a problem and you manage to dismiss liability and find liability to different things and you kind of you realize the practical applications of the degree you're studying and that's like obviously really you're going to be doing a career at the end of this and you'll see yourself traveling towards that goal and doing things you will be doing in practice.