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Lectures and Copyright. Many lecturers are unwilling to have their lectures recorded and recording of lectures is notallowed unless a student has a very good reason such as a physical disability. Students who wish to record a lecturemust obtain the permission of the lecturer concerned before doing so. It should be noted that copyright is held by theFaculty for all lectures and lecture handouts and that students are not permitted to reproduce these in any form. Anyunauthorised reproduction may also result in an action for breach of confidence.Plagiarism. Copying out someone else’s work without acknowledgement (i.e. by using quotation marks and footnotes) isplagiarism; so is rewording someone else’s work in order to present it as your own without acknowledging your debt.Plagiarism in work submitted for formal assessment is regarded by the University as the use of “unfair means” (i.e.cheating), and is treated with the greatest seriousness. Where examiners suspect plagiarism, the case may be referredto the Proctors. It may then be brought before the University’s Court of Discipline, which has the power to deprive culpritsof membership of the University and to strip them of any degrees awarded by it. Information on plagiarism, including theUniversity’s Statement on Plagiarism, can be found at www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism/students/. The Faculty ofLaw requires all coursework to be submitted electronically as well as in hard copy. The Faculty uses anti-plagiarismsoftware in the manner described in a document entitled ‘Student information and consent form for the use of Turnitinsoftware in 2010-11’ which can be accessed via the Official Faculty Documents page on the Faculty website(www.law.cam.ac.uk/faculty-resources/official-faculty-documents.php).Use of Statutes and other Materials in Examinations 2011. At the beginning of each academical year the FacultyBoard of Law gives notice of the statutes and other materials that candidates may use in examinations in the followingEaster Term.Candidates will be allowed to take into any examination a bilingual dictionary together with any materials specified in theFaculty’s notice (electronic dictionaries are not permitted). The permitting of bilingual dictionaries does not extend tospecialised legal bilingual dictionaries. Candidates are forbidden to take into any examination any materials other thanthose specified. Where materials are allowed, candidates must use their own unmarked copies. Subject to the provisostated below, any form of marking – including annotations, highlighting, circling and underlining – is prohibited. It is alsoforbidden to attach anything to or place anything within the permitted materials: this means, inter alia, that the use of tabs,post-it notes and stickers is prohibited. The proviso referred to above is that candidates may write their name and thename of their college on the inside front page of any permitted materials.In the event that a candidate's materials fail to comply with any of the requirements set out above, the Chair ofExaminers, the Examinations Secretary or the Examiner responsible for the conduct of the examination concerned willdecide whether to confiscate them. If annotated materials are confiscated, replacements will not be provided. Candidateswho fail to comply with any of the requirements set out above should be aware of the possibility of disciplinaryproceedings as well as of the confiscation of materials.Candidates must bring their own copies of permitted materials to examinations; spare copies will not be available shouldcandidates forget to bring their own copies.In the case of materials produced by the Faculty, candidates will be permitted to use only the current year’s issue and noother. Such materials will be available from the Law Faculty Office and will be stamped ‘For use in Examinations in2011’.33