New Arrival Bar Manual: Drafting 23rd ed

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Bar Manual: Drafting 23rd ed

By The City Law School
New Arrival Oxford University Press July 2026

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780198989585
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
July 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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

Table of Contents

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
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