I have already written a relatively comprehensive article about how law students and, indeed, practitioners can use mindmaps to study and practise law effectively. I do not intend to rehearse any of the points made there. Instead I intend to demonstrate specific examples from my time at University.
Obligations
Below are several examples of A3 mindmaps used to study the Honours LLB course of Obligations under Scots Law. These are, essentially, my own notes in mindmap form made before my Obligations finals exams, with sources used such as case law, textbook analysis and tutorial discussions. They are not a compilation of lecture notes and, indeed, I would warn any student reading this that it is not acceptable to publish lecture notes on the Internet.
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Ruxley Electronics and the Performance Interest
Mindmap on Ruxley and the Performance Interest
– Introduction to include performance interest generally with mention of Fuller and Perdue, the expectation interest and Friedmann’s arguments
– Protection of the Performance Interest
– Ruxley Electronics and Loss of Amenity and Reasonableness
– Farley v Skinner
– Panatown (which leads to the next mindmap…)
The Legal Black Hole and Panatown
Mindmap on Panatown and the Legal Black Hole
– Introduction, to include Lord Clyde’s statement “There are many situations in daily life which do not fit neatly into conceptual analysis”
– Ways of getting around the third party loss problem
– Focus on the direct contract between A and B
– The exception to the general rule
– Collateral warranties
– Jus Quaesitum Tertio (JQT)
– The Albazero exception and St Martin / Linden Gardens
– Panatown
– The narrow ground: the Albazero exception elaborated
– The broad ground: the performance interest elaborated
– Comment, to include Panatown having a loss itself and the concept of loss remaining unclear
– Scottish Clarification
– Clark Contracts
– McLaren v Murdoch
– Transferred Loss and JQT
