Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language - Brossura

Butt, Peter

 
9781107607675: Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language

Sinossi

This book provides a comprehensive guide to drafting legal documents in plain English with a dual practical and academic approach.

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Descrizione del libro

Modern Legal Drafting provides a comprehensive guide to drafting legal documents in plain English. It combines a practical focus with the legal principles that underpin the use of plain language in law. The new edition includes expanded material, many before-and-after examples and draws upon international case law and statutes.

Contenuti

1. Introduction; 2. What influences the legal drafter; 3. How legal documents are interpreted; 4. Some benefits of drafting in plain English; 5. How to draft modern documents, part 1: structure and form; 6. How to draft modern documents, part 2: particular issues for legal drafters; 7. How to draft modern documents, part 3: words and phrases; 8. Using the modern style.

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