"I teach this every week. I know what gets students to A/A* because I've watched students get there."
LawByLak isn't another peer-shared notes site or a generic revision platform. Every topic is checked against the real OCR and AQA specifications, examiner reports and past papers — written by someone who teaches A-Level and AS-Level Law to real students every week and works inside legal practice every day.
Emmanuella joined in May 2026 — three weeks before her A-Level Law exam, and predicted below a B. She finished with one.
That is one student, and three weeks is not long enough to promise anyone a grade. It is what happened. Read her review and the others →
Most A-Level Law students don't need better notes — they need real teaching. YouTube can't tell you why your last essay lost marks. Save My Exams can't walk you through the exact wording OCR examiners reward. That's what tutoring is for. With LawByLak you get both — 1:1 sessions with someone working in law, and the audit-corrected notes I teach from.
Each tutoring package includes live sessions with Lak, plus the full LawByLak module library for your paper — the same audit-corrected modules I teach from. Nothing is generic, nothing is filler.
See the modules I teach from →Never a substitute. Every session is with the person who wrote the modules.
60-min Google Meet sessions where we walk your paper the way OCR examiners actually mark it. Recorded and sent to you within 24 hours to revise from later.
The same audit-corrected notes I teach from — yours for the duration of tutoring.
50+ named cases per topic, all cited to real OCR examiner reports. Interactive tabs, worked answers, RAG confidence tracker, printable PDF. £49.99 as a standalone product on Payhip, or included free with any tutoring package.
Stuck on a question at 9pm on a Sunday? Message me.
Direct WhatsApp access between lessons for quick questions, essay checks, and case-application queries. Not a Discord group, not a chatbot — you message me, I reply.
Revise from your own lessons, not someone else's video.
Every session recorded and stored in your student area. Watch back the moment you stopped understanding, at your own pace, as many times as you need. Especially valuable in the two weeks before exams.
Written for the marks examiners actually award.
Every case, every principle, every model answer cross-checked against real specifications and examiner reports. Not generic "legal education" — targeted to the exam you're actually sitting.
First-Class Law degree, Master's in Law, currently working in a City law firm.
Not an ex-teacher or a content agency. When I explain a case, I explain it the way it's actually used in legal practice — which is exactly what examiners want to see at Level 4.
Same rhythm I run with every tutee — no lock-ins, no rigid plan. We start with what you're weakest at and build from there.
A free 15-minute trial, then one of three programmes — whichever fits where you’re starting.
Start with the free 15-minute trial — no card, no commitment. We’ll work out which programme fits, or whether you need one at all.
60-min sessions, examiner-focused, recorded.
Every session is with me — not a substitute. We work through the topics you pick, using the LawByLak modules as our shared reference. You get the recording within 24 hours.
Your student area holds everything.
Interactive notes, session recordings, RAG confidence tracker, WhatsApp for stuck moments. Everything you need to prep between sessions and cram before exams — with me still on WhatsApp when you need help.
Three programmes, each with the LawByLak learning platform and modules included — your homework, marked work and progress in one place, with every session recorded and WhatsApp support in between.
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Fees depend on where you’re starting and how long you have, so they’re discussed on a short call. You’ll get a straight answer and a recommendation — no card, no commitment.
The two foundation topics every Paper 1 candidate needs — every other criminal-law topic builds on these. Instant download. Lifetime updates. Or book a tutoring programme and the modules come included.
Instant download·Updates included·Built in the UK
all 51 of the 51 modules that will cover the full OCR specification are live now: the complete 20-module Criminal Law suite (general elements through to the defences and attempts), the complete 6-module Tort suite, all 6 Law Making modules, the 4 English Legal System modules and the 4 Nature of Law modules for Paper 3. That is the entire OCR specification — every topic, every paper — and every module is included free for anyone on a tutoring package. Built for OCR H418 and H018, with core content substantially covering AQA 7162.
Every topic ships as a self-contained interactive module — 50+ audit-corrected cases, examiner-report-cited principles, worked answers with mark-scheme language. Four real content boxes from Topic 1 below. Same content you'll see in our sessions.
The 2022 H418/01 examiner report noted that on Q6 (the Kareem mens rea question), "few explained oblique intent accurately". Most candidates either missed it or quoted R v Woollin [1998] without applying the two-part test.
The two-part test is non-negotiable:
(1) Was the consequence a virtually certain result of the defendant's act? (2) Did the defendant foresee it as virtually certain?
If both, the jury is entitled to find intention — they're not required to. State the test, apply it, and acknowledge the discretion. That's a Level 4 paragraph.
Source: OCR H418/01 examiner report 2022, Q6 commentary, p.12.Most candidates collapse causation into one paragraph: "the defendant caused the death because the chain wasn't broken." That's a Level 2 answer.
Causation is two separate tests, applied in order:
Step 1 — Factual causation. The "but for" test from R v White [1910]. But for the defendant's act, would the result still have happened?
Step 2 — Legal causation. Was the defendant's act still the operating and substantial cause when the result occurred? R v Smith [1959] is the lead case (the stabbed soldier dropped three times on the way to the medical station).
Two paragraphs, two cases, two clear conclusions. That's the structure mark schemes reward.
Strict liability offences impose criminal liability without proof of mens rea — most commonly in regulatory contexts (food safety, road traffic, environmental protection). The Law Commission has long argued they protect the public efficiently: in Harrow LBC v Shah [1999], strict liability for selling lottery tickets to under-16s placed the burden of vigilance on retailers, who are best placed to prevent harm.
The counter-argument is that strict liability convicts those who acted reasonably. In Sweet v Parsley [1970], Lord Reid recognised the presumption of mens rea precisely because criminal conviction carries moral stigma — and stigma without fault is, in most defensible accounts of justice, wrong.
The compromise — and the position most A* candidates argue for — is that strict liability is justified only where three conditions are met: the offence is genuinely regulatory rather than truly criminal, the penalty is proportionate (typically a fine, not imprisonment), and a due-diligence defence is available. On that test, much current strict liability passes; some — particularly the harshest "state of affairs" offences like R v Larsonneur (1933) — does not.
This is the static version. Every tab in the full module is fully interactive.
See the live interactive preview →5.0★ across every review to date. Every review below is real, unedited, and shared with the student's consent. Backed by 1,000+ hours of A-Level Law tutoring — students who started with the modules now book sessions when the mock results come in.
Genuinely impressed — the modules are clear, well-structured, and the mini tests at the end of each section make revision so much easier. They're going straight into my flashcards!
The LawByLak revision pack is really useful — I like that it tracks everything, has active recall built in, and everything's summed up in the summaries.
I found these notes incredibly helpful for breaking down complex legal topics into clear and understandable sections. The explanations are concise, well-structured, and easy to revise from before lectures or exams. What I particularly liked was how the modules simplified difficult case law and legal principles without losing important detail. They saved me a lot of time and made studying far less overwhelming. I would definitely recommend this website to other students looking for reliable and student-friendly law revision materials.
Every session is taught by me on Google Meet and recorded so you can rewatch it. There are three programmes — Private Mentorship, the Mastery Programme and the Exam Technique Intensive — depending on how much support you want and how long you have. Every one includes WhatsApp support between sessions, so you can message me when you’re stuck. Start with a free 15-minute trial.
Notes are available standalone if you prefer self-study — £49 per topic on Payhip, one-time payment, lifetime access. But honestly, the tutoring is where the value is. The notes are the reference material; the sessions are where I show you how to use them in an exam — the thing that actually moves you from Level 3 to Level 4. That's why every tutoring package includes the modules free.
It depends where you’re starting and how long you have. The six-month programmes suit students who want support across the whole course; the twelve-week Intensive suits students who know the content but are losing marks on technique. Book the free trial and I’ll give you an honest recommendation at the end of it — no pressure.
It covers all four. Topic 1 is built primarily against OCR H418 (A-Level) and H018 (AS-Level), and General Elements (actus reus, mens rea, causation, strict liability, transferred malice, coincidence) is core territory on AQA Law too — at both A-Level and AS-Level. The cases, the principles and the mark-scheme language overlap heavily across all four. Where AQA-specific spec wording differs, dedicated AQA-specific topic files will follow.
For Topic 1: 14 tabs of content, 21,000 words, 53 named cases, 22 practice questions across 5 difficulty tiers, 10 AO3 evaluation paragraphs, 5 mnemonics, an interactive RAG tracker that saves your progress, a mind map, mnemonic flashcards, dark mode, a reading-progress bar, and a printable PDF version included in the same purchase.
LawByLak is built by Lak — a working legal professional currently qualifying as a solicitor. Lak holds a First-Class Law degree and a Master's in Law, has delivered 1,000+ hours of tutoring with A-Level and AS-Level Law as the specialism across OCR (H418 & H018) and AQA, and built LawByLak from inside that teaching practice. Every topic is checked against the real OCR and AQA specifications, examiner reports and past papers — with mark-scheme language and audit-corrected case facts throughout.
Yes. Every topic comes with a printable PDF version included in the same purchase, and the interactive HTML version has a print-friendly stylesheet built in (try Cmd/Ctrl+P).
Anything that opens an HTML file — phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, Chromebook. The file works completely offline once downloaded. The PDF works wherever PDFs work. iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux all fine.
If the file isn't what you expected, email hello@lawbylak.co.uk within 14 days and I'll sort a refund. Honest is honest — if it isn't useful to you, you shouldn't have paid for it.
The build is finished. All 51 modules covering the full OCR specification are live — 20 Criminal Law, 6 Tort, 6 Law Making, 4 English Legal System, 5 Human Rights, 6 Contract Law and 4 Nature of Law. What comes next is depth rather than breadth: dedicated AQA modules, more worked answers, and updates whenever the law or the examiner reports change. Every one of those is free for anyone who has bought a module or a tutoring package.
Both are good at what they do, and both now have OCR-specific Law material — so the honest difference is not coverage, it is what you get alongside it. Save My Exams and Tutor2u sell resources at scale. LawByLak sells the resources and the person who wrote them: 1:1 sessions with me, every session recorded and yours to keep, WhatsApp support between lessons, and modules built from the examiner reports rather than from the textbook. If you only need notes, theirs are cheaper. If you need someone to show you why your last essay lost marks, that is what I do.
Free 5-page PDF from Topic 1 — actus reus introduction, two case-boxes, a worked example, a Common Mistake. See exactly what my tutees see. If you like the way the modules read, you'll like the way I teach.
Plus: Every module for the full OCR specification is live. Email list members get first access to anything new — updates, new worked answers and AQA-specific modules as they ship.
Audit-corrected Paper 1 explainers — written exactly like the inside of our PDFs, free for anyone preparing for OCR and AQA. Tort (Paper 2) coverage is now live in the modules.
The "guilty act" — what it actually is, why voluntariness matters, the six duties to act, and the five cases OCR and AQA examiners reach for over and over.
Read the guide →The two-step test — factual ("but for") and legal ("operating and substantial"), novus actus interveniens, and the thin-skull rule. With the audit-corrected case facts examiners reward.
Read the guide →The "guilty mind" — direct vs oblique intention (Mohan, Woollin), Cunningham recklessness, and the exact case phrasing OCR and AQA examiners reward.
Read the guide →When the defendant aims at one person but harms another — the saving rule (Latimer), the same-offence limit (Pembliton), and the most-missed Topic 1 doctrine according to the 2022 examiner report.
Read the guide →The Adomako three-element test. Duty of care, gross breach, causation. Worked examples and key cases.
Read the guide →Points you to the right page in two taps.
