Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer LanguageCambridge University Press, 28. 3. 2013 - Počet stran: 329 Modern Legal Drafting provides a comprehensive, authoritative guide to drafting legal documents in effective, plain English. Peter Butt, a leading expert in the field, has fully revised and updated the text for this new edition. It combines a practical focus with the legal principles that underpin the use of plain language in law. This dual practical and academic approach distinguishes it from other books in the field. It includes expanded material on the techniques for achieving a style that is both clear and legally sound. It also includes new material on the challenges and merits of drafting in plain language, and provides many before-and-after examples to help both practising lawyers and students develop their skills. It takes an international approach, drawing upon case law and statutes from England, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Ireland, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. |
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List of panels page | xi |
Table of cases | xix |
Acknowledgements | li |
Familiarity and habit | 5 |
Fear of negligence claims | 14 |
Professional pressures | 21 |
Payment by length | 32 |
Payment by time | 38 |
Notes and examples | 161 |
Standard forms | 169 |
Particular | 175 |
Obscure language | 184 |
Conditional clauses | 187 |
Handling generality and vagueness | 193 |
Crossreferences | 202 |
Overuse of capitals | 223 |
How legal documents are interpreted | 46 |
The principles of legal interpretation | 53 |
External factors | 73 |
Modern restatement of approach to interpretation | 80 |
Implied terms | 86 |
What judges have said about plain English in legal | 98 |
Benefits of plain English in law | 104 |
Conclusion | 127 |
deed or agreement? | 135 |
Layout and design | 145 |
Purpose clauses | 152 |
Recitals | 231 |
Choose the simpler word or phrase | 239 |
Foreign words and phrases | 247 |
Terms of art | 257 |
Nouns instead of verbs | 276 |
Punctuation and grammar | 288 |
Using the modern style | 298 |
distribution in unequal shares | 305 |
Further reading | 318 |
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