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Originally Posted by UPtimist
Luckily we don't have to memorize actual laws or anything (or, you know, lithanies of text or anything). It's more about the governing principles and knowing what is applicable and all that. The law texts are available in law collections which are almost always allowed in exams.
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Now I wish I had studied Law in Finland! In good ol' blighty we don't have to learn statutes/acts verbatim but we have to know them well enough to apply them in exams without having them in with us.
Your system is much more sensible as in practice, i.e. working as a lawyer, you have all the books to refer to that you want and it is a question not so much of knowing the law, but of knowing where to find it and how to apply it!
EDIT: Reading that back, I just want to make completely clear that I am not trying to belittle Finnish law exams or you yourself Mr Timist. By the sound of things your criminal law exam was much harder than mine was when I took it here. Besides, you are multilingual and I am not so you are demonstrably more intelligent than I am!
I LOVE YOU MAN! *Intense Degree gives UP a (presumably) thoroughly unwanted manhug.
