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LW453– BANKING & FINANCIAL LAW
TERM ESSAY (30%)
Assignment
Critically evaluate the respective roles of the courts and of the legislature in the development
of the duty of confidentiality which is applicable to the bank customer relationship under Irish
law.
Submission Requirement
• Submission deadline is 1st December 2022 at 5.00pm. Online submission through
Turnitin (Moodle course page) and a hard copy to submission box (Dr Karen Lynch
Shally) in the School of Law and Criminology (New House, Ground Floor).
• If a student is unable to meet this submission date, a request for an extension should be
emailed. Please note that unless an extension has been granted submissions received
after the deadline will incur a penalty of 5% of overall mark for each day (or part
thereof).
Assignment Details
• Submissions should be 2,000 words in length (excluding footnotes
ibliography).
• A word count of text should be included in the submission, this word count should
exclude footnotes
ibliography/plagiarism declaration.
• Assignments should be typed in Times New Roman font size 12 and the line spacing
should be 1.5/double.
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• Footnote citation of sources of content and a bibliography of materials used is required.
These should be in Oscola Ireland format – relevant resources are included on LW453
course page on Moodle. It is important to ensure that all source content is appropriately
and adequately cited. A document outlining MU Plagiarism Policy is included in the
esources for the assignment on the LW453 course page.
• A submission cover sheet including a plagiarism declaration (available on LW453
course page) should be included with the submission.
• Students are free to raise queries in relation to the assignment directly or through email
etc. In the interests of fairness to the class as a whole I will provide a response to the
collective class in lectures on any queries received directly which are of general
elevance in terms of the substantive content/formal requirement etc of the assignment.