Close sidebar Home » Departments and Centres » Law » Rules & Forms » Ph.D. Defence Procedure Open sidebar menu Procedure for PhD Defences Thesis Defence Procedure: Point 8 of the Guide to the Law Department PhD thesis defence rules Before the Thesis Defence Guidelines for thesis preparation Procedure for the language correction of theses Turnitin anti-plagiarism software - an Originality Report receipt to be submitted to the supervisor and his/her administrative assistant. After the Thesis Defence Authorisation to Publish form - candidate is requested to complete the form at the day of the defence; it is obligatory and no doctoral diploma will be issued by Academic Service until the form has been signed and received by the department. Once a thesis has been published, the Department will be pleased to add the relevant publication details to its web page of Published PhD Theses. Subsidies for publication Page last updated on 25 September 2023