Construction Law Degree?

Q: I'm thinking of posting the following immediately as a constructive response to Homework Help questions in future. Can anyone suggest any improvements? Any other ideas? Can anyone give me a cite for the UK equivalent of the Boys Big Book, the Australian version is CCH Australian Business Law? Regular posters to uk.legal are generally happy to help students by discussing the interesting or complex aspects of a problem but are a bit reluctant to provide a homework answering service on the basics. Some are quite offended by a bald question like "Please answer this question for me". Without getting deeply into academic ethics and usenet, let's assume that a newsgroup post is equivalent to brainstorming with fellow students or starting a discussion with someone. Let's further assume that you will be scrupulous in adhering to the rules about cheating, plagiarism, and citation in your assignment. It's always helpful to say what sort of course and what level you're studying at. The sort of responses given to a final year law student, a first year business studies student, or a polytechnic certificate student will probably be different, and different people may well respond.

A:I want to state at this point that where I live the Lancashire Evening Telegraph has a lawyer who gives out free legal advice via the legal column and students often write in with legal problems. I read them sometimes and think why didnt I think of that? But sometimes they are too obvious especially when it comes down to Tort and surveyors liability etc. A good laugh to say the least. I sincerely hope John Declan isn't copping grief from the academinazis, and if he is is mounting every defence of strict construction on his rather ham-fisted previous post. I've just finished my Master in Construction Law degree. So I wasn't a law student, but I've done some pretty serious law studies. But what difference does it make? My feelings in response to homework help posts vary from considerable offence at the lack of 'professionalism' as a student (i.e. lack of simple skills of being a student), when a senior student declares to all the world that they don't understand a simple question, to a considerable sympathy when beginning and non-law students are faced with poorly drafted

or smart-arsed trick questions. Of course, I'm sometimes engaged by a desire to show off ^H^H^H^H ^H^H^H add value when a question points to issues in my particular fields of expertise or interest. In any case, I tried to draft the piece so as not to put the heavies on students, convey some idea of the mores and likely response from the ng, and provide some constructive advice, particularly aimed at non-law students who may be genuinely puzzled about how to start with a law question. One of my aims was to post the FAQ early in the thread, in the hope of reducing the number of 'Do your own homework' posts, which I think tend to go over the top and get out of hand.