Posted: April 14th, 2015
Legislative Memo Assignment 2015
To practise the skills of:
Legislation: Vexatious Proceedings Act 2005 (Qld)
Find the current version of this legislation, and write a ‘Legislative Memo’ (ie summary) about it. A legislative memo is not simply a list of the various sections or parts of the Act. You should give a concise and meaningful summary of:
Students will be assessed on:
Length: Maximum of 1000 words not including reference material
Research: This is not primarily a research exercise. Your task is to find, analyse and prove your comprehension of the legislation assigned. In considering legislation, you may of course refer to and cite extrinsic materials (where available), such as the explanatory memoranda and/or second reading speech in the Hansard debates on the Bill, or have recourse to legal dictionaries to aid interpretation. Secondary sources may be useful, but only to give you background context. Since this is not a research essay, you will get no particular credit for referring to secondary sources.
Referencing: You must appropriately reference any idea which is not your own, including any direct quotes or copied material from any source.
Plagiarism Warning & Referencing: If you do draw on published sources and quote from them or directly use their ideas, you must give them credit. To fail to do so is plagiarism. It is also poor legal argumentation: Your argument will be stronger if you can give external authority for ideas or propositions, and then build on those authorities with your own, clearly expressed, reasoning.
If you quote directly from the legislation that you are summarising, you must indicate that it is a quote by either putting it in quotation marks “like this material in quotation marks” or indenting it in a separate paragraph:
Like this indented paragraph.
You must then add a footnote giving the source of the quote. If you closely summarise the ideas in the legislation, you should also use a footnote, showing the source of the idea.
Plagiarism also occurs if you hand in work that is essentially similar in any key respect to another student’s.
Both forms of plagiarism are serious forms of academic misconduct (see the Course Outline for further information and warnings about plagiarism penalties).
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