Mōrena

The lovely 400-odd LAWS110 students have their 2nd essay due this Friday at 12 noon.

The essay questions is ” Explain the reasons why Parliament is sovereign in New Zealand. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of parliamentary sovereignty” in 1500 words. They must use the New Zealand Law Style Guide (NZLSG) and include a bibliography (the bibliography isn’t included in the word count).

There is a lot of information on the LAWS110 Learn site for students including:

• a workshop video from me explaining how to find material
• a number of electronic readings from the lecturer
• links to online versions of the students textbooks
• an FAQ forum of students most frequently asked questions related to the assessment (Sascha – lecturer – and I will be adding to this list through the week).

I have been really hopeless at being on AskLive while on lock down but will try my best to be on there as much as I can this week in anticipation of nervous students.

The key questions I think we may get on AskLive (in case I am not on) are:

• help finding the advantages and disadvantages of Parliamentary Sovereignty. There is no list. Students need to read widely and identify these themselves as part of their argument
• help with the “above n ?” rule (this is 2.3 in the NZLSG). John, Kim and I have made this handout to help with this https://canterbury.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=48132058
• how to cite a website – students need to use rule 7.1 and include all the information they have. If there is no author or date then you don’t need to include it.

Any questions please just send them to John, Kim or I and we will take over.

Thanks so much and have a good week!

Theresa