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Penalty for Late SubmissionLL.M. HANDBOOK 2011-2012A candidate whose thesis is not received at the Faculty Office by 12 noon on Tuesday 1May 2012 will incur the following penalty:• For the first day (or part of day) there will be a deduction of four marks from the totalmark that would have been awarded if the thesis had been submitted within thedeadline• For every day (or part of day) thereafter, there will be a further deduction of twomarksMarkingAll theses are examined anonymously by two examiners. The examiners do not know thecandidate’s name or college, but simply the candidate’s examination number. It istherefore essential that your thesis complies with the format set out above.The Examiners may require a candidate to present himself or herself for a viva voceexamination upon the subject of his or her thesis.PlagiarismCopying out someone else’s work without acknowledgement (i.e. by using quotation marksand footnotes) is plagiarism; so is rewording someone else’s work in order to present it asyour own without acknowledging your debt. Plagiarism in work submitted for formalassessment is regarded by the University as the use of “unfair means” (i.e. cheating), and istreated with the greatest seriousness. Where examiners suspect plagiarism, the case maybe referred to the Proctors. It may then be brought before the University’s Court ofDiscipline, which has the power to deprive culprits of membership of the University and tostrip them of any degrees awarded by it. Information on plagiarism, including theUniversity’s Statement on Plagiarism, can be found athttp://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism/_The Faculty of Law requires all coursework to be submitted electronically as well as in hardcopy. The Faculty uses anti-plagiarism software in the manner described in a documententitled ‘Student information and consent form for the use of Turnitin software in 2011-12’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).40