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Sources Lecture 3 Laws110 21st Feb Notes

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Legal Foundations (LAWS110) Notes

Legal Foundations (LAWS110)

Approximately 168 pages

The notes are from lectures and tutorials for legal foundations from a high achieving student from the lecturer John Hopkins and Sasha.

The course aims to provide a foundation in the skills of legal research and legal writing together with an academic grounding in topics fundamental to the New Zealand legal system. The course will involve training by way of proactive exercises in legal research and legal writing. It will also examine the historical development of New Zealand's legal system, f...

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Laws110.

  • 21st February Lecture 3

Introduction to Legal Research Skills

>Learn

>What is law

>Press Display

>the Press??

>Remember about the task

>Antony Bradney and How to study law – read this!!

>Online modules

- 15th to the 29th of March complete (5 hours)

Quiz is worth 10%

Primary sources= legislation/case law the law itself= tell us what the law is

Secondary sources= textbooks, commentary, articles. Like a judge who has written about the law

Legal information- interlinked

  • Legislation law of NZ/ can also be statues, laws parliament passes

  • Case law- decisions of courts and the judges have printed the decision

  • Books about the law

  • Journal articles about the law

  • Legal encyclopaedias

  • Legal dictionaries… the NZ Law Dictionary

Primary law

Is the law itself

Legislation/Acts/Statutes/Cases/Judgments (no E for law)

Secondary law

Commentary

Always start with books and legal encyclopaedia

Make sure to research with the right books

Footnotes give you reference to legislation and case study (find in books)

Find more books and journal articles

Also read journal articles (they can contrast, articles agree/disagree)

New Zealand Law: Foundations and Method 2nd edition

>Check contents

>NZ footnote style, citations- find different sources from the footnotes

C v Holland= “C and Holland”

>Find the table of statues...

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