OVERVIEW
Effective individual and organisational performance requires conducive legal environments, supported by reliable legal documents. Legal functionaries saddled with the responsibility of producing and providing the documents need to know and apply the principles underlying the production of the documents. This course has been structured to teach the participants contemporary principles of legal drafting.
niches and be competitive, they have to align their finances with their strategies. This requires their managing their finances strategically. In this course, participants will be taught how to align the finances of their organisations with their strategies.
WHO TO ATTEND
Legal Directors, Legal Officers and Legal Advisers of organisations and Para-Legal Staff involved in the production of legal documents.
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the course are, to:
- Introduce participants to contemporary principles of legal drafting.
- Encourage participants to imbibe and be guided by the principles in the discharge of their duties after the course.
OUTLINE
- The Nature and Types of Legal Documents.
- Principles of Legal Drafting.
- Planning Letters and Documents.
- Negotiating and Recording Deals.
- Legal Writing in Civil Practice.
- Judicial Writing.
- Practical Drafting of Documents.
- Rules of General Correspondence.
- Plain (English) Language in Legal Drafting.
- Brevity, Concision, and Accuracy.
- Structuring and Writing Contracts.
- Writing for Publication.
- Legal Writing in Complex criminal Trials.
- Use of ICT in Legal Writing.