Friday 8 November 2013

A Summary Of The Legal Writing Services

By Alyce Powell


Legal writing may be defined as a type of writing used by those within the legal profession as a way of communication with the judged or clients and also to express their analysis of issues. It is a technical type of writing which can only be used by those with the knowledge of the law. This article looks at an overview of legal writing services.

It is worth noting that those writing the documents must ensure that they are clear and precise in their writing. They must also conform to the standards provided in law. The standard for some of the documents especially documents used to institute proceedings in court can be found at the back page of the any procedural law such as criminal procedure code or civil procedure code.

It is worth looking at the various distinctive features between law documents and other documents when giving the summary. The distinctive feature to consider is the authority. Law documents are always authoritative. The authoritative nature is evident in the way in which they are always written and even the tone used through the writing.

In order to emphasize the authority, the drafters normally include the various provisions of the law to support whatever they are saying. A unique way of citation must also be used while citing the provisions of law. The citation style also gives it another distinctive feature.

There is also another feature of use of precedent. This entails the re use of documents which had been drafted in the past. Most of the time, those who engage in drafting of the documents, normally keep the documents they have drafted. This enables them to use it once again there is a similar situation which requires the drafting of a similar document.

Use of different technical vocabulary is another distinctive feature worth mentioning. There are certain vocabularies which have a different meaning in law. These vocabularies must be used in the documents. The use of various doctrines in law can also be used as well when drafting the documents. When drafting, it is important to normally use law dictionary. This is because there are certain words which have a different meaning in law as compared to the other meaning in the other professions.

The first one is legal analysis while the other one is legal drafting. The firs category can be further divided into predictive analysis and persuasive analysis. Predictive analysis includes memorandums, letter to clients or letters written to other people on behalf of the client or opinion. These documents tend to predict on the outcome of a question or issues. They consider analyzing the different provisions of the law then conclude by predicting the outcome based on their analysis. Persuasive analysis on the other hand is just like brief or written submissions which tend to persuade the judge to decide a case in favor of their clients.

Legal analysis can be of two categories. There is the persuasive analysis and predictive analysis. The predictive analysis is normally written with intention of predicting an outcome from issues. On the other hand persuasive is written in order to persuade the acting judge or any other person adjudicating on the matter so that they can reach same findings as the one you have reached of so that they can give their ruling to favor your case. Law drafting on the other hand entails the drafting of binding documents such as acts of parliament, rules and regulations. These is the summary of the legal writing services.




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