Wednesday 5th November 2008

In add+vantage today, we quickly recapped some bits from last week. Kinda handy really! We looked at why good communication is important in effective leadership. The rest of the lecture we looked at the differences in structure and culture in an organisation. We came up with structure being the makings of an organisation and hierarchy. We also decided it was in layers. The culture is more like a way of life. It’s the way things work. For next week I need to do a little of research on Richard Branson.

Tuesday 4th November 2008

Today we had our 2 legal systems lectures and the study skills. Maz is still away for some reason so we had Tim Vollans again. In the lectures we quickly looked at an act of parliament and how it is laid out. We also looked at case law. Cases have been written and reported since 1275. To date, there have been 3 stages of case reporting.
1275 – 1535: year books
1535 – 1865: private reports
1865 – present: modern reports
We looked at the limits of when you can sue. This was brought up recently when someone wanted to sue, but didn’t because the person they were suing had no money. They have since won the lottery and wanted to sue now.
In study skills we looked at what difference punctuation can make. We had a letter from Jill to Jack. The first one we looked at was saying how much she loves him and cant be without him. Then we looked at a different copy with the full stops and commas in different places which says how much she hates him and really can’t stand him.

Monday 3rd November 2008

We had introducing criminology at 12 and a law seminar with Mark at 1. In introducing criminology, we looked at the differences between normal, different, deviant, and criminal. We were asked to think of an example, and try and put the example into each section. The example a few people thought of was
Normal: going to the pub
Different: getting really drunk and flirting with everyone
Deviant: dancing on the bar
Criminal: getting really drunk and assaulting someone
There was some debate as whether getting drunk is that different. This was generally the example people used. We also had a list of actions that we had to decide id they were firstly against the lay, then if they were normal, different, deviant or criminal. Most of the illegal ones were criminal obviously, but we were surprised by the fact that prostitution is not against the law, but soliciting is!
In the seminar for Constitutional and admin law, we looked at the separation of powers in a lot of detail. We looked at how different it will be this time next year when the Supreme Court is opened and the House of Lords is closed as a court. We also looked at how the separation of powers can never be perfect because the separation of powers were introduced after the government was formed.