Updated 4 November 2026
If you’ve used LawTeacher before, you’ll know that we offer one of the most comprehensive collections of free law lecture notes available anywhere online. Thousands of law students across the UK and beyond rely on our lectures every week to support their studies.
But the law doesn’t stand still – and neither should we.
Our 2026 review is now complete. We’ve checked all 74 full lectures on the site, one by one, against current legal sources and updated them where the law has changed or a correction was needed. The lectures cover contract law, criminal law, land law, public law and tort law.
What’s changed?
The scope of the updates varies from lecture to lecture, but the changes include:
- Updating outdated law – for example, some of our public law lectures discussed EU law as though the UK were a member state. We’ve updated these sections to reflect the UK’s departure from the EU, the repeal of the European Communities Act 1972, and the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023.
- Adding new cases and legislation – the law has moved on significantly in many areas. We’ve incorporated recent Supreme Court decisions, new statutes, and updated academic commentary where relevant.
- Correcting errors – over the years, a small number of inaccuracies have crept in: misspelled case names, incorrect dates, garbled citations. We’ve corrected those identified during the review.
- Preserving the original lectures – changes are confined to legal corrections and necessary updates. The authors’ wording, examples and references have been retained wherever they remain accurate.
Our aim is simple: every lecture on LawTeacher should be something you can rely on with confidence – accurate, up to date, and clearly written.
Why does this matter?
If you’re a law student, you already know how important it is to cite current law. Relying on outdated notes can cost you marks – or worse, lead you to a fundamentally wrong answer in an exam or coursework. The difference between a first-class answer and a mediocre one often comes down to whether you’ve engaged with the law as it stands today, not as it stood five years ago.
That’s why we’ve carried out this review. We want LawTeacher to be the resource you turn to first, knowing that what you’re reading is current and reliable.
Other free resources you might not know about
While we’ve got your attention, it’s worth mentioning that our lecture notes are just one part of what we offer. If you haven’t explored the rest of the site, here are a few tools and resources that students find particularly useful:
- Case law database – our searchable database of case summaries covers hundreds of key cases across all major subject areas. Each entry gives you the facts, the legal issue, and the decision – ideal for quick revision or for building up your case knowledge before an exam.
- Free OSCOLA referencing tool – if you’ve ever struggled with getting your footnotes and bibliography right, this tool takes the pain out of it. Just enter the details of your source and it generates a correctly formatted OSCOLA reference for you.
- Act summaries – we provide clear, concise summaries of key UK statutes, breaking down the most important sections and explaining what they do in plain English. These are a great starting point when you’re approaching a new piece of legislation for the first time.
- Free student-written law essays – and the vast majority now have an update box at the bottom, so you can check the essay is still legally accurate.
All of these resources are completely free to use, just like our lectures.
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Updated lectures
All 74 full lectures listed below have now been reviewed and updated. Each page carries a last updated date of 3 or 4 November 2026.
Contract law
- Offer
- Acceptance
- Certainty and intention to create legal relations
- Consideration and promissory estoppel
- Privity of contract
- Terms of a contract
- Exclusion clauses
- Misrepresentation
- Mistake
- Duress and undue influence
- Illegality
- Agreement, performance and breach
- Frustration of contract
- Damages
- Other contractual remedies
Criminal law
- Actus reus
- Mens rea
- Murder
- Manslaughter
- Assault, battery and ABH
- Wounding and GBH
- Property offences
- Fraud
- Sexual offences
- General inchoate offences
- Parties to crime
- Insanity, automatism and intoxication
- Duress and necessity
Land law
- Fixtures and chattels
- The doctrine of notice
- Third party rights
- Law of Property Act 1925
- Registration of title: overriding interests and minor interests
- Express and implied trusts
- Trustees in land
- Joint tenancies and tenancies in common
- Severance
- Co-ownership disputes
- Creation of easements and profits
- Acquisition by prescription
- Freehold and restrictive covenants
- Leases
- Licences and proprietary estoppel
- Creating a mortgage
Public law
- Constitutional institutions
- Sources of the constitution
- The rule of law
- Parliamentary sovereignty
- The royal prerogative
- Government and executive accountability
- Legislative functions
- European Union law
- Human Rights Act 1998
- The judiciary
- Judicial review
- Applications, grounds and remedies for judicial review
- Tribunals, inquiries and ombudsmen
Tort law
- Duty of care
- Economic loss
- Psychiatric illness
- Breach of duty of care
- Causation
- Intervening acts and remoteness
- Employers’ personal liability
- Breach of statutory duty
- Vicarious liability
- Occupiers’ liability
- Nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher
- Trespass to the person, land and goods
- Economic torts
- Defamation, libel, slander and defences
- Privacy
- Defences and limitation of liability
- Remedies
