Cambridge from the Inside #13: Law Admissions Advice | University of Cambridge

Stay tuned as Dr Rachel Tolley explains everything you need to know about Cambridge Law interviews, the LNAT admissions test, and how Trinity Hall choose which Law students to give offers to.

Before joining Trinity Hall, Rachel was a member of Wadham College, Oxford, where she completed her BA (Jurisprudence), and BCL. She recently submitted her DPhil thesis, entitled Deception, Mistake, Privacy and Consent: A Conceptual Framework for Resolving the ‘Line-drawing’ Problem in Sex-by-Deception and Mistaken Sex. Whilst at Wadham, Rachel was one of three graduate students to co-found and organise the Herbert Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Mooting Championship in 2014. This major event in the Oxford mooting calendar was established to promote discussion of disability and how it intersects with domestic and international law; an issue to which Rachel remains committed here in Cambridge.

Rachel’s main area of research concerns the effect of deception and mistake on the validity of consent to sexual activity in English criminal law. Rachel also maintains research interests in the non-fatal offences against the person. She is currently working on a paper which considers how the law should conceptualise damage to prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs and other mobility aids. Rachel teaches Criminal Law and and Criminal Procedure and Evidence, and is honoured to hold a fellowship in the name of John Collier.

00:00 Introductions
02:00 What general advice do you have for candidates preparing for their Cambridge interviews?
22:15 What are the Law interviews like at Trinity Hall?
44:45 Top tips for performing well during Law interviews
49:40 How should candidates prepare for Law interviews?
56:50 How similar are Law interviews to Law supervisions?
01:01:30 What is the LNAT, the admissions test for Law?
01:02:30 Advice on how to prepare for the LNAT
01:15:30 Tips for essay writing in the LNAT
01:19:30 How do we decide who to make Law offers to?
01:31:00 How can offer holders prepare for studying Law at Cambridge?