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summarised, students must refer to that person in the text and give details of the work to which reference is
made.
6.8 (GR)
It is an examination offence to submit work which has been written jointly by two or more persons, unless
expressly permitted in section 4 of this the programme specifications and regulations.
6.9 (GR)
Assignments, essays, projects, reports, dissertations and other similar work must therefore be the student’s
own work and must be written without the assistance of other people, except where expressly permitted in
section 4 of the Detailed Programme Regulations. A student will be required to submit a signed declaration for
all such work submitted, stating that they understand what is meant by plagiarism, and confirming that the
work submitted is entirely their own and that the use of published or unpublished works of other people has
been acknowledged in accordance with the University’s requirements.
6.10 (GR)
It is the responsibility of the student to safeguard their assignments, essays, projects, reports, dissertations
and other similar work and to prevent them from being copied by other students.
6.11 (GR)
The examination offences listed above will be treated as cheating or irregularities of a similar character under
the provisions of the Procedures for the Consideration of Allegations of Examination Offence of the
University’s Regulations (Regulation 1 Appendix 6 and, as appropriate, Appendix 7). Under these
Regulations, students found to have committed an offence may have the results of their examinations withheld
and may be excluded from all future examinations of the University.
For the University’s Regulations, see www.london.ac.uk/
7 Progression within the programme
7.1 (GR)
Within the limits given below a student may decide when they are examined, the number of modules they
attempt each year and the order in which modules are examined. A student does not have to be examined
every year.
See section 4 for method of assessment.
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Regulations 6.8, 6.9 and 6.10
do not apply to the
Postgraduate Laws
programme.
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Regulations
Number of modules permitted at an examination
LLM degree
7.2
A student registered for the LLM who decides to enter examinations at the first available examination session
after registration is permitted to attempt a minimum of one module and a maximum of nine modules. At all
subsequent examination sessions, a maximum of 16 modules may be attempted.
7.3
A student registered for the LLM who decides not to enter examinations at the first available examination
session after registration is permitted to attempt a minimum of one module and a maximum of 16 modules at
all subsequent examination sessions.
7.4
A student registered for the LLM is not permitted to attempt more than two double modules at any one
examination sitting.
Postgraduate Diploma in Laws
7.5
A student registered for the Postgraduate Diploma in Laws who decides to enter examinations at the first
available examination session after registration is permitted to attempt a minimum of one module and a
maximum of nine modules. At all subsequent examination sessions, a maximum of 10 modules may be
attempted.
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