This article provides straightforward advice as to how to write first class and upper first class papers in the general field of Law. Need it be said, Law is a tricky subject. Scoring even a 2:1 grade for a Law paper is quite an achievement. In the following commentary we will explore the sort of characteristics and qualities that an examiner or assessor is likely to expect to find in a top class paper.

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The airline industries in Australia have changed rapidly over the past few decades. Since the end of the 1980s many reforms have affected the industry, transforming it from the rigid government mandated duopoly of the 80s into the relatively open market that exists today. Chief among these reforms would be the decentralisation for the early 90s, which paved the way for many of the other reforms and which this paper seeks to investigate in detail.

Law assignments can leave you at times pulling your hair out. If you are just starting out on your law degree, the learning curve can be great and deciphering all that jargon and acronyms can take an insurmountable time!

Unless your institution stipulates that you must produce an appendix, the best advice is to avoid producing one. If you are at in all doubt, be sure to speak to your tutor or supervisor.

Your analysis of your data or material in your law dissertation is how you seek to answer the questions posed in your introduction.

Your conclusion requires and deserves careful planning. Without this you run the risk of repeating yourself or running out of things to say.

Your law dissertation background is a key part of your overall work and presupposes that the reader has no prior knowledge of the topic under consideration. In essence therefore the background contains introductory and elementary information without which it would be close to impossible to understand what the paper is all about.

The hardest part of writing introductions is explaining what you are going to do in a way in which it sets your work out as an important piece of legal research, and so engage your reader without giving the whole plot away.

Legal academic dissertations at all levels now typically incorporate some type of 'literature review'. Generally this is incorporated in an early section in your dissertation...

The research method or methodology you adopt will depend partly on the topic you have selected and partly based on your own interests and/or preferences...

Coming up with a title for your dissertation is no easy task. You have to spend a lot of time crafting the perfect dissertation title that will then lead you into writing your dissertation. Get your title wrong or put little effort into it will mean that you’re going to have a bumpy ride in the forthcoming year!

A dissertation or a thesis is a method of presenting your research and findings and is submitted in support of candidature for a degree or professional qualification.

In order to generate your law research proposal, you will need to consider the approach that you are going to take with your chosen topic.

It can be very hard work coming up with a topic or idea for your dissertation. A lot of research goes into writing an idea and key is to keep it as specific as possible. Go to your tutor and your topic is too broad then you’ll be going back to do it again!

Petersen J, giving judgement in 1916, determined that copyright was concerned with protecting the 'expression of thought’ and not the 'originality of ideas’. Copyright does not require that an expression must be original – just that it is not copied from another work. This has led to a particular problem with television programme formats in United Kingdom law where there seems to be no protection in law of the basic idea in a format despite the fact that there is a growing business licensing these very format 'rights’, however unique and original.

The following notes are intended to provide the student with an overview of what is expected, or required, in relation to undertaking/completing a dissertation, and to assist the student avoid some of the inevitable confusion that surrounds the commencement of a dissertation. However, it is also assumed that these notes will be readily superseded as students achieve sufficient 'independent’ momentum and understanding.

The applicable legal regime is that of the freedom of movement of goods contained in the EC Treaty under Articles 25 and 90, concerned with taxation. Freedom of movement of goods is one of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the EC treaty and it is one of the foundations of the Community. The European Court of Justice have therefore interpreted the provisions widely and the exceptions allowed to the member states very restrictively.