Overview

"The new editions of ""Legal Practice Course Guides"" marks a shift in focus, from the traditional book learning of the old course towards an emphasis on legal skills gained through practical exercises. Each guide explains the relevant substantive and procedural law and, where appropriate, contains sample precedents, documents and check lists, as well as excerpts from relevant practitioner texts. Sample questions and exercises are included as a stimulus to further reading. The guides form a bridge between the notes and workbooks produced by each teaching institution and the raw material found in the practitioner texts. This 1996/97 guide brings together the five skills that are at the heart of the Legal Practice Course, and which underpin effective performance as a solicitor. The guide advocates the use of a problem-solving framework for legal research and fact analysis, gives a detailed account of source materials, and provides effective methods for organizing the results of research. It identifies the key characteristics of good legal writing and provides a fresh approach to planning, with a particular emphasis on paragraph construction and organization. It draws upon the analysis in the section on drafting, which sets out the main rules, and offers suggestions for good drafting practice, all set in the context of an example drawn from the work of Gilbert & Sullivan. In its consideration of the lawyers' skills of interviewing, negotiation and advocacy, it provides a general introduction to interpersonal skills, and considers questions of strategy and tactics. The section on interviewing emphasizes the importance of preparation and a structured approach, while the section on negotiation introduces the student to the latest findings from theoretical research, and puts these in a practical setting with a wealth of practical examples and illustrations."

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Author:   Philip Asterley Jones
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Blackstone Press Ltd
Edition:   5th edition
ISBN:  

9781854316462

ISBN 10:   185431646
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 July 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9781854317827
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Part Legal Research and problem-solving: legal research - a problem-solving approach - identifying and classifying information; identify the legal solutions - legal analysis, proposing a hypothesis, the relationship between legal and non-legal solutions; establishing the evidence - distinguishing between fact and evidence, methods of establishing evidence, an introduction, narrative technique, simplified charting, the outline system; evaluating the legal solution - the existing information in your possession, the inferential strength of your explanations, external constraints, your objectives; doing library-based research - analysis of the problem, review of the subject-matter, searching primary and secondary sources, updating the search, using electronic information retrieval, reporting the results of research. Part 2 Legal writing: legal writing; strategies for effective legal writing; the conventions of letter-writing - an exercise. Part 3 Drafting legal documents: introduction to drafting; preparing to draft; responsibility for drafting and getting down to drafting; appearance, style and content of the draft; your draft in their hands; use of grammar and language; amendment, engrossment and completion; plan, write, revise and construction. Part 4 Interviewing: interviewing and advising; communication in the interview; the skills involved in interviewing; elements of the interview - anatomy and structure; advising the client. Part 5 Negotiating: negotiation; negotiation methods; preparation for negotiation; conducting a negotiation - a problem-solving approach; conducting a negotiation - an adversarial approach. Part 6 Advocacy: introduction - advocacy and the solicitor; preparation; examination-in-chief; cross-examination; opening and closing speeches.

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