LAW1111 Lecture 3: Week 3
22 Aug 2018
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Week 3: reading and interpreting cases (cid:498)who is suing whom, for what? (cid:499) Ask yourself a number of questions as you read a case: Write the citation: write the case name and citation accurately. Make sure you have the name of the court and the date. Also add your text reference or reference in your notes so you can find it again. Facts of the case: leave this blank or merely sketched in initially and come back to it. The material facts can only be established once you are clear about the issues in the case. Arguments of the parties: establishing the arguments can help you decide what the legal issue is. Grounds of appeal: this may have been established by the arguments. This is another indicator of the legal issues. Legal reasoning: the process of reasoning used by the judges to come to their decision. Ratio decidendi: note as simply as you can what you think this is.
