Assignment: Write a case-note essay on one of the following Supreme Court cases:
AM (Zimbabwe) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) [2020] UKSC 17, [2020] 2 WLR 1152.
Sutherland (Appellant) v Her Majesty’s Advocate (Respondent) (Scotland) [2020] UKSC 32, [2020] 3 WLR 327.
R v Copeland (Appellant) [2020] UKSC 8, [2020] 2 WLR 681.
Darnley (Appellant) v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust (Respondent) [2018] UKSC 50, [2019] AC 831.
General reading on legal writing/Writing a case-note essay:
Steve Foster, Legal Writing Skills (5th ed, Pearson, 2019), Chapter 9: 331-338.
Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski, Legal Skills (7th ed, Oxford University Press, 2019), Chapters 11, 12 and 14.
James Holland and Julian Webb, Learning Legal Rules (10th ed, Oxford University Press, 2019), Chapter 7: How Precedent Operates: Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum
