Law Tutoring

Who law tutoring is for

Tutoring is for students who want to understand their subject properly and get better at doing the work themselves. It suits:

• LLB students working through core modules such as contract, tort, criminal or land law
• Graduate diploma and conversion course students who need to get up to speed quickly
• LLM students tackling longer essays and independent research
• PhD researchers who want a sounding board on methodology, structure and argument
• Students returning to study, or studying law in English as a second language

How sessions work

Tutoring takes place online, one-to-one, so you can join from wherever you study. After you get in touch by WhatsApp or email, we will ask about your course, the topic you want to work on, and a time that suits you. You can send a module handbook, lecture notes, a reading list, or a draft you have written, so the session can be planned around your needs.

A typical session is a structured conversation. Your tutor will help you unpack the question or problem, talk through the relevant legal principles, and work with you on how to apply those principles to the facts. You are encouraged to ask questions, test your reasoning, and practise explaining the law in your own words. At the end of the session you should leave with a clearer plan for your independent study, such as a reading order, a structure for an answer, or a list of points to develop in your own writing.

Sessions can be booked as a single appointment or as a short series if you want ongoing support through a module or a research project.

What to send before your first session

The more we know before the session, the more useful it will be. When you get in touch, please include:

• Your course, year and university, so the tutor can match the level
• The module name and the topic or question you want to work on
• Your module handbook, reading list or lecture slides, if you have them
• Any draft you have written yourself, if you want feedback on it
• Your deadline or exam date, so we can plan the right number of sessions

Subjects covered

Law tutoring can support undergraduate, postgraduate, LLM, and PhD study. We can work with you on core and optional subjects, including:

• Contract law
• Tort law
• Criminal law
• EU law
• Constitutional law
• Land law
• Equity and trusts
• Legal research and writing skills
• LLM and PhD research methods

If your module sits close to these areas, for example a coursework question that draws on more than one subject, say so when you book and we will confirm whether we can help.

Study skills

Many students do not struggle with effort. They struggle with method: how to read a case, how to extract the ratio, how to build a structured problem question answer, or how to move from notes to a clear argument. Tutoring can focus on these study skills as well as on the substance of the law.

That may include help with case reading and note-taking, statute interpretation, OSCOLA referencing, planning an essay or problem question, or preparing for an oral assessment. The aim is that you leave able to use these methods on your own.

Feedback on your own drafts

If you have already written a draft, you can bring it to a session for feedback. The draft must be your own work. Feedback may cover structure, clarity, use of authority, whether the legal issues have been identified, and where the argument needs more development. We will talk you through the comments so that you can revise the work yourself.

We will not rewrite your draft for you, and we will not produce a replacement version for submission. The purpose of feedback is to help you see what to improve and how to improve it.

Editing and proofreading

We can also provide editing and proofreading support that keeps the work your own. This means help with grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence clarity, consistency of terminology, and the presentation of references. It does not mean adding new legal analysis, inserting sources you have not read, or changing the argument so that it is no longer yours.

You remain the author of the work you submit. You are responsible for checking your university's rules on third-party support and for making sure that any help you receive is allowed.