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Level 4 Diploma in Law

Midterm evaluation

LAW402 · Academic Writing and Research Skills for Law — Midterm

CourseLAW402
Week8 of 16
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This week’s topics

Midterm evaluation

  1. Midterm assessment of the criteria taught so far
  2. Individual feedback and targets

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Identify where to find case law.
  • 1.2 Explain how to read case law.
  • 1.3 Analyse the difference between citing judicial legal reasoning and citing legal facts of a case.
  • 2.1 Identify where to find legislation.
  • 2.2 Explain how to read statute.
  • 2.3 Describe how to cite statute.
  • 2.4 Research a statute and explain the influences that impacted on its progress into law.

Activity

Midterm assessment task and individual feedback.

Study materials

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Course plan
  • Week 1: Locating case law: the All England Law Reports and online d…
  • Week 2: Separating facts, legal reasoning and outcome
  • Week 3: Finding and accessing Acts of Parliament; green and white p…
  • Week 4: Reading and paraphrasing statute
  • Week 5: Researching a statute's journey into law and the influences…
  • Week 6: Planning and structuring legal essays, problem questions (I…
  • Week 7: Primary and secondary sources, legal dictionaries and journ…
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Command verbs in legal assessment: analyse, evaluate, asses…
  • Week 10: Approaches to learning and study
  • Week 11: Self-evaluation of academic skills and English
  • Week 12: Applying Academic Writing and Research Skills for Law in pr…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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