• Offers highly practical advice on the skill of drafting across a range of legal settings, including contract, tort and criminal proceedings, ensuring that the reader is equipped with the requisite skills to draft high quality legal documents in all areas of practice
• Example statements of case accompanied by detailed commentary explaining the draft are contained throughout ensuring that students fully understand the principles underlying the skill of drafting
• Exercises contained throughout encourage the reader to practise and refine their drafting skills by putting their own skills into practice

New to this edition

• This 2009-2010 edition has been fully revised in light of any recent developments in the areas covered in the manual, and also features a Table of Precedents at the start of the manual enabling students to quickly and easily identify and locate a specific precedent contained within the book

Readership: Students studying on the Bar Vocational Course.

The City Law School

1: The skill of drafting
2: The use of precedents
3: Drafting in plain English
4: 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: Checklist for Drafting Skills