Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer LanguageThis 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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Obsah
What Influences the Legal Drafter | 5 |
How Legal Documents are Interpreted | 32 |
The Move towards Modern English in Legal Drafting | 58 |
Some Benefits of Drafting in Plain English | 85 |
What to Avoid when Drafting Modern Documents | 96 |
How to Draft Modern Documents | 129 |
Using the Modern Style | 166 |
Further Reading | 175 |
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Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language Peter Butt,Richard Castle Omezený náhled - 2006 |
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Bibliografické údaje
| Titul | Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language, Richard William Castle |
| Autoři | Peter Butt, Richard Castle |
| Vydání | ilustrované vydání |
| Vydavatel | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521001862, 9780521001861 |
| Délka | Počet stran: 181 |
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