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    This document provides guidance on how to write case notes, including summarizing the key details of cases in a concise manner. It recommends including the case name, citation, court, key words, facts, result, and reasons or ratio in no more than 3 sentences. Additional guidance is given on organizing case notes thematically or alphabetically and supplementing notes with outside research from textbooks, articles, and lectures.

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    This document provides guidance on how to write case notes, including summarizing the key details of cases in a concise manner. It recommends including the case name, citation, court, key words, facts, result, and reasons or ratio in no more than 3 sentences. Additional guidance is given on organizing case notes thematically or alphabetically and supplementing notes with outside research from textbooks, articles, and lectures.

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    Supplementation: No Case Should Ever Take Up More Than Two Sides of A Handwritten 5x3 Index Card

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    This document provides guidance on how to write case notes, including summarizing the key details of cases in a concise manner. It recommends including the case name, citation, court, key words, facts, result, and reasons or ratio in no more than 3 sentences. Additional guidance is given on organizing case notes thematically or alphabetically and supplementing notes with outside research from textbooks, articles, and lectures.

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    Case name Full citation Court Key words Facts Result Reasons/ratio (the legal rationale support the

    result). Dicta (interesting statement not necessary to decide outcome) Evaluation (decided correctly, etc) o Flaws in the judges reasoning? Arguments failed to consider? o Is the decision + reasoning inconsistent with previous judgments on the same o Does the decision start us down a slippery slope to a disastrous situation? o Do the judges reasons make the case

    Harmonisation look at direction of different cases, explain where the law is going Distinguish how and why earlier cases distinguished from the present. Queries Read 1st casenote facts, held, dissenting views 2nd salient parts of the judgment 1 sheet A4 paper per case ( take notes are you go). No case should ever take up more than two
    sides of a handwritten 5x3 index card.

    Facts different Past ratios not applicable here.

    Organise notes Alphabetically Thematically per topic. Supplementation Textbooks Articles Lectures -

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