Bar Manual: Drafting 21st ed

This Drafting manual offers a comprehensive course in drafting suitable for the trainee barrister, providing all the necessary information alongside practical exercises to help the reader practice and master the skill of drafting.

• 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

table of content

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 a 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