First-year students come from +2, where subjects are studied by reading and remembering. Legal study is different: a lawyer is never paid to recite Section 1 of an Act, but to apply law to a client's problem. Legal Method is therefore the foundation course of the B.A.LL.B. — it trains:
• careful reading of statutes and judgments,
• disciplined reasoning (deduction, induction, analogy),
• research to find law,
• writing in the special register of law,
• problem-solving through the IRAC method.