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Clear Legal Writing
Course details
- Date
- 28 August 2013
- Time
- 09:30 - 17:00
- Full venue address
- Leicester, To be confirmed
14 days before the course date
Leicester
United Kingdom
- CPD Hours
- 6
- Delegate Rate
- £420.00 plus VAT excl. VAT
- Event type
- Course
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Course description
Course level
Intermediate
Delegates
This course will be of benefit to any practitioner involved in legal writing, from trainees to senior partners and from pupils to silks. This course does not cover specific litigation or legal forms.
Overview
This course will introduce delegates to the use of plain English in different types of legal correspondence and documents. There are plenty of exercises and examples which makes for an interactive and stimulating course helping the delegates to practise the theory.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course delegates should be able to:
* Understand what clear legal writing means
* Recognise the need for legal clarity in different types of legal documents
* Differentiate between written and oral advice
* Classify which words and phrases have been judicially defined
* Apply general rules for drafting in plain English
* Recognise and apply the rules of interpretation
* Dispense and deal with the pitfalls and issues relating to the use of legal jargon
Overview
This course will introduce delegates to the use of plain English in different types of legal correspondence and documents. There are plenty of exercises and examples which makes for an interactive and stimulating course helping the delegates to practise the theory.
Concessions
- Concessions
- BPP has a membership scheme that provides significant discounts on our entire programme of PD courses. Members of the scheme can receive up to 50% discount on any PD course booked.