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Writing Reasons: A Handbook for Judges 5th Edition

Writing Reasons: A Handbook for Judges 5th Edition

Writing Reasons: A Handbook for Judges 5th Edition

Author: Edward Berry
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
ISBN: 9780433506676
Published In: November 2020
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Canada ? Disclaimer:
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Writing Reasons: A Handbook for Judges, 5th Edition is a helpful guide for adjudicators on how to comprehensively structure and write judgments. Written by Edward Berry, an experienced lecturer and well-recognized seminar leader on the subject of writing judgments, this text is unique among works on legal writing in its focus on judgments, about which it offers guidance not only to adjudicators but to lawyers submitting written materials to the court.

The book is particularly useful as it provides:

Practical content devoted to the art of effectively writing judgments
Insightful commentary on structure, grammar and writing for your audience
Tips for making writing both clear and personal
A series of exercises designed to test your ability to put into practice the principles of judgment writing, as well as an Appendix containing suggested "answers" to these exercises

What's New In This Edition

Significant revisions to Chapter 5: Words and Sentences, which extends and re-works material that had previously appeared in Chapters 6 and 7 of the previous edition
Significant revisions to Chapter 1: Introductions, which includes new examples of organizational variety; Chapter 2: Organization, which expands the previous treatment of issue-driven structures; and Chapter 7: Widening the Audience, which adds new examples
The reading list from the previous edition has been expanded and updated as Appendix 2: Additional Resources

Preface

Prologue

Chapter 1: Introductions

Chapter 2: Organization

Chapter 3: Conciseness

Chapter 4: Organizing Paragraphs

Chapter 5: Words and Sentences

Chapter 6: Punctuation

Chapter 7: Widening the Audience

Chapter 8: Developing a Personal Style

Chapter 9: Revising

Appendix 1: Exercise Key

Appendix 2: Some Additional Resources

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