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Law Notes Legal Foundations (LAWS110) Notes

Workshop Wednesday 22nd May Notes

Updated Workshop Wednesday 22nd May Notes

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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Law workshop

Wednesday 22nd May- ESSAY DUE

Key words

  • Tino Rangatiratanga

  • Te Tirito o Waitangi

Use textbooks in a course code search

JSTOR

Audience

Currency- get something new

Evidence

Books, the Laws of New Zealand (legal encyclopaedia), journal articles etc.

The Laws of NZ search in Lexis Advance

Use the library catalogue

  • Subject guide

  • Library catalogue > β€œLaws110”

Law Alive- chapter 4 section 4.3

Interpreting the treaty

Footnotes can link to aspect of discussion Can give another reference

Matthew Wrights book

Call #

Can do a keyword search

Search category

https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1230042&crid=1911a25d-82f3-4833-ac76-d55071ac9ad0&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fanalytical-materials-nz%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A5BVD-TPH1-FBV7-B0FK-00000-00&pddocid=urn%3AcontentItem%3A5BVD-TPH1-FBV7-B0FK-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=603148&pdteaserkey=sr0&pdicsfeatureid=1517128&pditab=allpods&ecomp=bfsdk&earg=sr0&prid=0b1b0d09-197a-48c2-bcce-2702c8241ced

Chief Judge J Williams- use as reference

s10 is useful

Cases and Legislation

Tables of cases and statutes

Can find all details of case at the back

Use references from lecture

Journal articles

Like Linxplus

It is an index, not full text, sometimes have to go to library catalogue

Secondary materials for the journal articles

Search example: "Waitangi" and "Tino rangatiratanga"

Not the full text- https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1230042&crid=ae85a68e-cf65-4834-b3d9-6cc808ec6e40&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fanalytical-materials-nz%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A5D3J-H191-FGY5-M11B-00000-00&pddocid=urn%3AcontentItem%3A5D3J-H191-FGY5-M11B-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=114560&pdteaserkey=sr0&pdicsfeatureid=1517128&pditab=allpods&ecomp=bfsdk&earg=sr0&prid=6f70a674-6a6f-4207-ab45-74244c56c7f2

Can search in multisearch

Multisearch- paste the text in

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