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Legal Research And Methods Question Paper

Legal Research And Methods

Course:Bachelor Of Laws

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2008

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF LAW

LPR 102:LEGAL RESEARCH AND METHODS

DATE: Friday, 15th August, 2008

TIME: 9.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
Please answer THREE questions. Question ONE is Compulsory. This examination
carries 70% of the marks in this course. Question ONE carries 30 marks while the
others carry 20 marks each. Write legibly and neatly.

1.
Organize a two-page overview of a study you would like to conduct in your
community. You may select your preferred choice of method or specific
approach. In your summary, include:
a)
The problem you plan to study
b)
The major research question you plan to ask
c)
The hypothesis you wish to formulate
d)
The data you wish to collect and analyze
e)
The significance of your study, and
f)
Your relationship to the topic and participants being studied
(30 marks)

2.
Underneath any given research design and choice of methods of inquiry lies a
researcher’s (often implicit) understanding of the nature of the world, and how it
should be studied. These underlying priors and/ or assumptions provide
researchers with the philosophical ballast that is necessary to address important
questions concerning the nature of knowledge, reality, truth, certainty and
objectivity in any given project. Discuss.

(20 marks)

3.
The common law tradition boasts of time-proven safeguards to ensure that in
interpreting legislation, courts are guided by a common standard. Evaluate the
celebrated principles of interpretation of legislation.

(20 marks)

4.
Looking for the law has certainly become easier in the 21st Century. The tools
now available to the legal researcher in Kenya are numerous and easily
accessible. We should therefore expect to see superior legal opinions, research
and submissions than was possible in the past. Discuss.

(20 marks)

5.
‘In addition to conceptualizing the writing process for a proposal, researchers
need to anticipate the ethical issues tha may arise during their studies. A
researcher must always incorporate good practices in the research proposal’.
Discuss this statement in the context of the entire design and execution of the
research project.

(20 marks)

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