This book reveals how and why traditional legal language has developed some of the peculiar characteristics that sometimes make legal documents inaccessible to users. It examines recent reforms in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and North America, and provides a step-by-step guide to drafting in a modern style. Readers of the book will be able to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful to clients and colleagues.
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This book shows how and why traditional legal language has developed some of the peculiar characteristics that sometimes make legal documents inaccessible to the end users. It examines recent reforms in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and North America, and provides a step-by-step guide to drafting in the modern style. Readers of this book will receive clear instructions on how to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful to clients and colleagues. This book will benefit all law students and professionals.
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A British book that U.S. lawyers can use.,
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This review is from: Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) (Paperback)
The book is for lawyers in Great Britain and Commonwealth nations like Australia and New Zealand. So the examples may strike U.S. lawyers as odd or old. But the principles are still valid, and the advice is still practical. The book explains how to draft in a clear, modern style. It provides before-and-after texts, examples of litigation-causing terms, and authoritative discussions of grammar, punctuation, and tone for the legal drafter.It also has two things I haven't seen in other drafting books: (1) an informative discussion of the historical causes of bad legal drafting, and (2) a history of the plain English movement in England, Commonwealth nations, and the U.S.
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The traditional style of legal writing is the product of many influences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern legal drafting, legislative drafting, traditional legal drafting, plain legal language, modern drafters, lot burdened, eiusdem generis rule, plain language documents, parliamentary drafters, plain language drafting, private legal documents, legal drafter, conveyancing precedents, modern documents, servient tenement, precedent books, legal efficacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Plain English, Statute Law Review, Draft Modern Documents, The Move, Lord Hoffmann, Modern English, Pty Ltd, Law Reform Commission of Victoria, House of Lords, Old English, New South Wales, Australian High Court, Insurance Cases, United Kingdom, Michigan Bar Journal, New Zealand, Lord Denning, Australian Law Journal, Law Society's Gazette, Reed Dickerson, New Law Journal, Law of Property Act, History of English Law, Robert Eagleson, Remuneration Order Browse Sample Pages:
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