Your work in the law firm, whether as a placement student or running your own practice, will require a significant amount of legal research and writing. Legal research and writing is fundamental to your competence as a legal professional. As you practice in the years ahead, legal research and writing is the only way that you will keep up to date with all of the developments that take place.

For this assignment, you are required to case brief, which is similar in format to a legal memo, on the case Singh v. Canada, which you can find here: http://canlii.ca/t/1fv22.

How does a case brief relate to a legal memo? Both of these documents essentially take the same form. The only difference is that you are summarizing the key elements of a court case rather than developing answers to a hypothetical legal problem.