Drafting

23. Revised Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-898958-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 206 mm x 292 mm

Reihe: Bar Manuals

Drafting is designed to equip trainee barristers with the requisite skills to draft high-quality legal documents across all areas of practice. The manual contains practical advice on the skill of drafting in a number of legal settings, including contract, tort, and criminal proceedings.

Each chapter contains numerous examples accompanied by detailed commentary on the key features of the draft. Exercises are included throughout the manual, offering the opportunity to practice and perfect your own style of drafting.

Key Features:

· Offers highly practical advice on the skill of drafting across a range of legal settings, ensuring that the trainee barrister is equipped with the requisite skills to draft high quality legal documents in all areas of practice
· Principles of drafting are demonstrated in example statements of case and accompanying commentaries explaining the draft
· Exercises throughout encourage the reader to practise and refine their own drafting skills
· Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support

Autoren/Hrsg.

Law School, The City

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: The skill of drafting

- 2: The use of precedents

- 3: Drafting in plain language

- 4: The rules and principles relating to statements of case

- 5: Headings

- 6: Claim forms

- 7: Basic particulars of claim in tort and contract

- 8: Basic defences in tort and contract

- 9: Further particulars of claim

- 10: Further defences

- 11: Misrepresentation

- 12: Additional precedents for claims

- 13: Defence and counterclaim

- 14: Reply and defence to counterclaim

- 15: Additional claims

- 16: Amendment of statements of case

- 17: Request for further information

- 18: Further information

- 19: Interim injunctions

- 20: Written evidence

- 21: Judgments and orders

- 22: Claims for judicial review

- 23: Skeleton arguments

- 24: Indictments

- 25: Criminal grounds of appeal

- 26: Part 8 claims

- 27: Construction claims

- 28: Claims for breach of trust and the recovery of trust property

- 29: Checklists for drafting skills

Über Autor(innen)

This manual is edited by David Emmet, Barrister, former Reader, The City Law School.