LAWS2008 Government and Public Law

Instructions

Students are required to answer Parts A and B of the assessment. Part A is a set of short answer questions. The total word count for Part A is 500 words. Part B is an essay. The total word count for Part B is 1500 words.

Answering the questions in Part A and Part B require you to draw on the extracts provided in this document. These materials are fictional. Please use the extracts provided, and DO

NOT GO TO THE UNDERLYING PROVISIONS ON WHICH THESE MATERIALS ARE BASED. This task does not require additional research and can be answered based on materials covered in this subject.

Word length:

The total word limit for this assessment is 2 000 words. This word count does not include footnotes, titles and headings. Failure to meet the total word count by over 10% constitutes a failure to attempt this assessment and will result in an inability to pass the subject (see 2.3 Assessment Summary in the Learning Guide for requirements to pass the subject).

Format

There are strict formatting requirements with which students are required to comply. The Subject Coordinator reserves the right to refuse to accept assignments that are not submitted in accordance with these requirements:

• Do not manipulate the margins of the page

• Conform to a 12 point font in Times New Roman

• Assignments must have 1.5 or double line spacing

• Ensure your full name and student number appear on the footer of each page

• Number all pages consecutively

• Use footnotes in accordance with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)

• Do not provide a bibliography

• Do not provide a cover sheet (Turnitin generates one automatically)

Referencing

Assignments must be referenced in accordance with the Melbourne University Law Review Association, Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association Inc., 4th ed, 2018). Students should familiarise themselves with the Student Misconduct Rule regarding plagiarism prior to submission.

Use of Generative AI in Law assessments

Students should give serious thought to whether a generative AI tool is an authoritative source of legal information. The School of Law does not consider Generative AI to be a reliable or authoritative source of legal information. However, if you do use Generative AI, you MUST acknowledge this as a source. If you quote or paraphrase from a generative AI tool, below is how you should acknowledge this source in accordance with requirements set out in AGLC 4. If you do not acknowledge the source, it is academic misconduct under the University’s Student Misconduct Rule.

Definitions of Academic Misconduct

Where a student submits work in which ideas, words or other work are taken from a source and presented as if these are the student’s own work, without appropriate acknowledgement

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of the original author, ’Appropriate acknowledgement’ being the conventions of citation recognised as acceptable to the University.

If students use generative AI, they are advised to keep a screenshot of the generative AI response, as AI tools will often generate different responses to the same questions/prompts. The editors have advised that when referencing responses from generative AI tools, you should broadly follow rule 7.12 which deals with Written Correspondence. See: https://answers.library.westernsydney.edu.au/faq/273171