<p>Enright examines the concepts of rationality and irrationality as he describes the reasoning processes that should underlie the core tasks that lawyers perform. These reasoning processes should ensure that each task is done as effectively and efficiently as human endeavor can make it.</p>

Legal Reasoning

Politics & Social Sciences

Enright, Christopher S.

Philosophy

Maitland Press

<p>Lawyers perform many tasks. This book focuses on the core tasks with law. The core tasks are as follows: • Organising law. This covers ascertaining the overall structure of an area of law. It also covers the task of organising an individual legal rule by dividing it into its elements and consequences. • Making law. This explains the making of statute law and common law. • Interpreting law. This explains the interpretation of statute law and common law. • Using law in litigation and transactions. This explains the overall task. This also explains two specific tasks, namely applying law to facts and proving facts • Communicating law. This involves the major tasks of writing law. Discussion includes advice on how to answer a problem question. This also involves reading law. Discussion includes advice on reading cases and statutes.</p>

Legal Method

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Legal writing is notoriously not easy to read. This book seeks to rectify this problem. While the author acknowledges the good work done by the plain English advocates he believes they have missed the main problem and its solution. The biggest reason that any writing, including legal writing, is difficult to read for a person who is literate is that it lacks a proper structure. The core to the solution to this problem is to explain how good writing is structured. Part of this is a general structure that applies to all writing. This includes having an effective overall structure. Part of it is knowing the way to create a clear overall structure for particular disciplines such as law. To this end the book explains the major structure that legal writing should use. In addition to this huge emphasis on structure the book explains other matters. These include writing with style; identifying the likely or intended readers, assessing their likely level of knowledge and understanding and then addressing the text to the level that is best for them; and understanding how best to approach and organise writing in a way that enhances its effectiveness. In discussing these matters the book explains these techniques for writing in general because legal writing is a species of the genus called writing. The text brings in the legal aspects of writing by two things, depending on their situation. It incorporates them as 'add ons' or as a 'blend ins'.

Legal Writing

Legal Education

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