Chapter 8: Books, Journals, and Official Publications

Test Bank

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 08 Question 01

1) A ______ is a detailed written study of a single specialized topic.

Feedback: Monographs take particular topics and analyse them in fine details.

Section reference: 8.1.3

a. monograph

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 02

2) Which of the following are examples of legal encyclopedias? Please select all that apply.

Feedback: Legal encyclopedias (as distinct from general encyclopedias) and digests are extremely useful research tools.

Section reference: 8.1.5

a. Halsbury’s Laws of England.

b. Brittanica.

c. Wikipedia.

d. The Digest.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 03

3) Which ONE of the following (conventional) dictionaries is the most frequently cited in court?

a. The Oxford English Dictionary.

b. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

c. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

d. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary.

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Title: Chapter 08 Question 04

4) Journals can also be referred to as ‘______’.

Feedback: Journals, or ‘periodicals’, are a useful resource that can be used to keep up to date with the latest developments in the law.

Section reference: 8.2

a. periodicals

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 08 Question 05

5) The Official Report of Parliamentary debate is commonly referred to as ‘______’.

Feedback: The Official Report is commonly named Hansard after one of its earliest editors, Thomas Hansard.

Section reference: 8.3.4

a. Hansard

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 06

6) Which of the following are examples of Command papers? Please select all that apply.

Feedback: Command papers—i.e. White Papers and government responses to Select Committee reports—are presented to Parliament ‘by Command of Her Majesty’.

Section reference: 8.3.1

a. White Papers.

b. Acts of Parliament.

c. Government responses to Select Committee reports.

d. Statutory instruments.

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 08 Question 07

7) ‘Major policy proposals are put forward in Green Papers.’ Is this statement true or false?

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 08

8) Which of the following are indicators of a reliability, value and credibility of material found on the Internet? Please select all that apply.

Feedback: Remember that anyone can post material online—particularly on Wikipedia—and you should take care to ensure that your secondary sources are reliable. It being well written is not evidence enough that it is reliable.

Section reference: 8.4.1

a. The material is published on Wikipedia.

b. The material is well written.

c. The material is written by a reputable practitioner.

d. The material is on an official website.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 08 Question 09

9) Quasi-legislation is sometimes referred to as ‘______’ law

Feedback: Quasi-legislation, or ‘soft’ law, is ‘law that is not law’.

Section reference: 8.4.4

a. soft

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 10

10) Which of the following are examples of ‘soft’ law? Please select all that apply.

Feedback: Soft law is typically administrative in nature and includes all of the options offered, except by-laws.

Section reference: 8.4.4

a. The Highway Code.

b. By-laws.

c. Home Office Circulars.

d. Prison rules.