Modern Legal Drafting
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Modern Legal Drafting

A Guide to Using Clearer Language

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Modern Legal Drafting

A Guide to Using Clearer Language

About this book

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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Information

Edition
3
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of panels
  3. Table of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation
  4. Table of Cases
  5. Acknowledgements Third Edition
  6. Chapter One Introduction
  7. Chapter Two What influences the legal drafter?
  8. Chapter Three How legal documents are interpreted
  9. Chapter Four Some benefits of drafting in plain English
  10. Chapter Five How to draft modern documents
  11. Chapter Six How to draft modern documents
  12. Chapter Seven How to draft modern documents
  13. Chapter Eight Using the modern style
  14. Further reading
  15. Index