F4 English law or Global Law

Company law is the same in both. It covers the CA2006 of the UK. Things like insider dealing, money laundering and corporate governance also are the same, including bribery covering all the UK acts. The difference arises in the initial areas of the syllabus. The English variance has the law on torts and employment law of the UK and contract law of the UK. We global people don’t learn all that. We learn the UN CISG convention (which covers international contracts), then we learn ICC incoterms and in the start the UK variant has stuff like English common law and statutory interpretation. We have stuff like civil law, Sharia law (Islam law but just a bit) and arbitration (ENG VARIANT HAS no arbitration).

It really depends where you live in order to choose ENG OR GLO. If you live in the UK, highly recommend you to do ENG variant. However, ENG variant has much case law to remember than GLO law and more details and facts to know. It’s even more complicated. GLO law is difficult but has little cases and quite easy to learn. Most of it is just memorization. The difference in the exams is just 3-4 questions and the rest of the paper is usually the same.

So now you can decide which to do. I’m giving my GLO exam on 9.Dec.2013 so I am quite experienced with this stuff.