LA1102 - Week 3

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

• A citation should be complete and correct to provide the reader with enough information to locate the source

• A citation should be in compliance with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC) in all legal writing for best practice

• A citation should be provided to ensure honesty and integrity in legal writing

• Citations need only be provided for cases

Which of the following is the most commonly used method for legal citation in Australia?

• Harvard Referencing Guide

• Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Guide

• EndNote

• Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)

Choose the BEST response to describe what is meant by the system of medium neutral citations:

• It is a system adopted by the courts where the case citation (apart from the party names) includes the year the judgment is handed down, the court or tribunal identified in abbreviated form, and a judgment number

• Within a judgment, each paragraph is issued a paragraph number

• A medium neutral citation indicates that the judgment appears in an authorised series of reports.

• A medium neutral citation is a series of case numbers provided by a legal publisher

In the civil case Smith v Jones (1992) 12 CLR 46, how would the 'v' be pronounced?

• And

• Against

• Versus

• V

There is increasing reference in legal writing to information located via the internet. Which of the following statements is NOT relevant for how to reference this material?

• The Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC) requires the retrieval date to be included in the reference

• The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) should be included within ‘< >’ but is only useful if it is a stable URL and is freely available online

• If the article appears in an electronic journal, then the rules for citing a journal article should be applied

• The information provided needs to be correctly given for the reader to be able to locate the item via the electronic medium

For the large services, such as legal encyclopaedias, which of the following examples is the BEST method to be adopted for the citation from that source?

• Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, vol 1(1) (at 1 November 2002) 5 Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders [5–3760]

• Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, vol 1(1) (at 1 November 2002) 5 Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders

• LexisNexis, Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, vol 1(1) (at 1 November 2002) 5 Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders [5–3760]

• LexisNexis, Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, vol 1(1) (at 1 November 2002) 5 Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders

Which of the following represents a correctly cited journal article?

• David Newlyn, ’Focus Groups: The Who, What, When, Where and Why of their Value in Legal Research' 5(1) Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association 219

• David Newlyn, ’Focus Groups: The Who, What, When, Where and Why of their Value in Legal Research' 5(1) Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association 219 (2012)

• David Newlyn, ’Focus Groups: The Who, What, When, Where and Why of their Value in Legal Research' (2012) 5(1) Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association 219

• David Newlyn, ‘Focus Groups: The Who, What, When, Where and Why of their Value in Legal Research' (2012) 5(1) JALTA 219