Contents - Faculty of Law - University of Cambridge

‘Open Book’ Papers. Where a paper has been designated as an ‘open book’ paper, candidates are permitted to takethe following materials into the examination: (i) any materials supplied in class by lecturers (e.g. handouts, problemquestions, and photocopied extracts from printed sources); (ii) any materials prepared by themselves, including materialphotocopied without breach of copyright (e.g. a student’s notes, photocopies of reported cases or published articles, orphotocopied extracts from published books which represent no more than 10% of the whole book, thereby complying withthe rules concerning copyright). Notices detailing the relevant rules concerning copyright are located adjacent to everyphotocopying machine in the Faculty Building; (iii) material specified in the Faculty’s notice on the ‘Use of Statutes andOther Materials’, which will be published in the Michaelmas Term (e.g. a statute or collection of statutes); (iv) a bilingualdictionary. Electronic dictionaries are not permitted.It is never permissible to take a textbook (or casebook) into an examination - a textbook will never be designated aspermitted material. Nor is it permissible in an ‘open book’ examination to use a photocopy of an entire textbook (to makesuch photocopy would amount to a breach of copyright).‘Closed Book’ Papers. Candidates are forbidden to take into any examination any materials other than those specified.Where materials are allowed, candidates must use their own unmarked copies. Subject to the proviso stated below, anyform of marking – including annotations, highlighting, circling and underlining – is prohibited. It is also forbidden to attachanything to or place anything within the permitted materials: this means, inter alia, that the use of tabs, post-it notes andstickers is prohibited. The proviso referred to above is that candidates may write their name and the name of theircollege 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.Candidates who 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’.Prizes. The following prizes may be awarded each year for outstanding performance in the LLM Examination:The BRD Clarke Prize for the Best Overall PerformanceThe Chancellor’s Medal for English LawThe George Long Prize for JurisprudenceThe George Long Prize for Roman LawThe Clive Parry Prize for International LawThe Clive Parry Prize (Overseas) for International LawThe Clifford Chance C.J. Hamson Prize for Comparative LawThe Gareth Jones Prize for Restitution78