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Great Legal Writing: Lessons from Literature [Hardback]

  • Formāts: Hardback, 293 pages, height x width: 240x160 mm
  • Izdošanas datums: 16-Feb-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Globe Law and Business Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1787429490
  • ISBN-13: 9781787429499
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 293 pages, height x width: 240x160 mm
  • Izdošanas datums: 16-Feb-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Globe Law and Business Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1787429490
  • ISBN-13: 9781787429499
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Keywords:

Legal prose is often a more pedestrian venture than a novel or a poem. However, even the pedestrian can be done well. The views of the professional writers considered in this book identify how lawyers can write legal prose well, and sometimes even beautifully.

This book provides key lessons on legal writing that can be gleaned from various leading authors of the past and brought to bear in crafting more polished legal texts. Among the great authors considered are Joseph Conrad, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson and Virginia Woolf. Central themes identified are:

Legal writing should never be too difficult to understand;

Great writers have much to teach the legal writer;

Good writing requires hard work;

Professional jargon is generally best avoided; and

The truth is always pure, often simple, and generally best expressed in plain English.

This book contains invaluable guidance to help all those involved in legal writing to hone their writing skills, while providing an engaging tour through the works of great authors from the past.

All after-tax author royalties from this book will be donated to the Ukrainian relief efforts of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.

Recenzijas

In this highly original book, Justice Barrett has drawn together an astonishing amount of material. This is an important contribution to the field of law and literature. -- Bryan A. Garner This book will help guide anyone involved in legal writing to hone their writing skills, while providing an engaging tour through the works of great authors from the past. -- Law Society Gazette This books provides key lessons on legal writing...a useful resource for lawyers, judges and academics interested in developing their legal prose. -- Anna Davies Every now and then I have the privilege of reading a book in which the authors breadth of knowledge and elegance of prose take my breath away It would be a mistake to think this book is merely an examination of great authors and how their thoughts on writing can add to the creation of modern legal prose. Justice Barrett provides practical advice on how to craft effective legal writing, stating the importance of meticulous research, legal analysis, brevity, and giving a solution to everyday problems. At the end of the book, he provides a code of legal writing which consolidates the main points of the text. -- Corinne McKenna As with his previous book, this volume repays study by anyone engaged in legal writing, however remote might be their claims or ambitions of greatness. -- Paul Magrath

Foreword 9(6)
1 Lawrence: On morality, aesthetics and other matters
15(10)
1 Writing engagingly
15(2)
2 Didacticism and the `art' of writing
17(1)
3 Moralising
18(1)
4 Detachment
19(2)
5 Writing intelligently, coherently and honestly
21(2)
Key propositions
23(2)
2 Besant: On the `laws' of fiction and other matters
25(12)
1 Writing engagingly
5(22)
2 Sympathy and writing
27(1)
3 Selection in writing
27(1)
4 Elevation of mind
27(1)
5 `Laws' of writing
28(7)
Key propositions
35(2)
3 Conrad: On bringing light to truth and other matters
37(6)
1 Bringing light to truth
37(1)
2 Different author types
38(1)
3 Emotion, morality and writing
39(1)
4 Pursuit of truth
40(1)
Key propositions
41(2)
4 Crawford: On moralising, flippancy and other matters
43(18)
1 Types of text
43(1)
2 Purpose of text
44(2)
3 Effect of writing
46(1)
4 Moralising
47(1)
5 Flippant and colloquial writing
48(1)
6 Self-discipline
49(2)
7 Brevity, simplicity, etc
51(2)
8 Illusion, truth and writing
53(1)
9 Realising the author's conception
53(1)
10 Using foreign words
54(1)
11 Digression
55(1)
12 Life experience and writing
55(1)
13 Amusement/humour in writing
56(1)
14 The ethics of writing
57(1)
15 Sympathy
57(2)
Key propositions
59(2)
5 De Maupassant: On honesty, simplicity and other matters
61(10)
1 Originality
61(1)
2 Expectations as to form
62(1)
3 The pursuit of truth
63(1)
4 Detachment
64(1)
5 Exactness and carefulness
65(2)
6 Using simple vocabulary
67(1)
Key propositions
68(3)
6 De Quincey: On style and other matters
71(18)
1 Style and writing
71(2)
2 Why is style important?
73(1)
3 Writing versus speech
73(1)
4 Carelessness in writing
74(4)
5 Media influence on language
78(2)
6 Unduly long or conditional sentences
80(1)
7 Using foreign words
81(1)
8 Different aspects of style
82(1)
9 Punctuation
83(1)
10 Footnotes
84(1)
11 Repetition and brevity
85(1)
Key propositions
86(3)
7 Forster: On the text as a story and other matters
89(18)
1 Legal texts as stories
89(1)
2 Writing engagingly
90(3)
3 Writing and voice
93(5)
4 Detachment
98(1)
5 Plot and writing
99(2)
6 Writing a conclusion
101(1)
7 Different types of writer
102(2)
8 Patterns in writing and writing models
104(2)
Key propositions
106(1)
8 Hardy: On sincerity, originality and other matters
107(12)
1 Sincerity
107(1)
2 Originality
108(2)
3 Detachment
110(2)
4 `Laws' of writing
112(2)
5 Hardy's observations summarised
114(1)
6 Carelessness in writing
115(1)
Key propositions
116(3)
9 The Hawthornes: On theme, tone, truth, the task of writing and other matters
119(32)
1 Plainness and simplicity
119(1)
2 Tone
120(2)
3 Morality and writing
122(2)
4 Writing models and formulae
124(1)
5 The steps to writing a text
125(2)
6 The `art' of writing
127(1)
7 Writing powerfully
128(1)
8 Transcendent text
129(1)
9 Types of writer
130(3)
10 Some common failures in writing
133(6)
11 Legal texts as national literature
139(1)
12 Writing engagingly
140(5)
13 Condescension and children
145(2)
14 What makes a good writer?
147(2)
Key propositions
149(2)
10 Hazlitt: On pedantry, insight, jargon and other matters
151(8)
1 Pedantry
151(1)
2 Reading other texts
152(2)
3 Jargon
154(3)
4 Using foreign words
157(1)
Key propositions
158(1)
11 James: On the art and duty of writing, humour and other matters
159(30)
1 The `art' of writing
159(3)
2 Task of the writer
162(1)
3 Amusement, humour and didacticism in writing
163(4)
4 Superabundant judgments
167(5)
5 Writing engagingly
172(5)
6 Avoiding ornamental writing
177(2)
7 Writing engagingly, recounting facts
179(2)
8 Types of writing
181(4)
9 Style and freedom in writing
185(2)
Key propositions
187(2)
12 Stevenson: On composition, pattern, sound and other matters
189(22)
1 Vocabulary, word choice and grammar
189(9)
2 Composing a text
198(2)
3 Style
200(3)
4 Key elements of style
203(1)
5 Patterns in writing and writing models
204(1)
6 `Sound' in writing
205(2)
7 What to include or omit
207(2)
Key propositions
209(2)
13 Trollope: On literary quality, truth and the `rules' of writing
211(10)
1 Artistry and writing
211(1)
2 Honesty in writing
212(3)
3 `Laws' of writing
215(3)
Key propositions
218(3)
14 Woolf: On quality in writing, `rules' of writing and other matters
221(34)
1 Weaknesses of modern writing
221(16)
2 Lifeless writing
237(1)
3 Forms of writing
237(2)
4 Honesty and writing
239(1)
5 Stream of consciousness
240(3)
6 Concision in writing
243(1)
7 `Rules' of writing
244(1)
8 Long words and opening words
244(1)
9 Writing engagingly
245(7)
Key propositions
252(3)
Afterword: Towards a code of good legal writing 255(14)
Appendix: Writing for the young and vulnerable 269(14)
Table of cases 283(2)
Index 285(6)
About the author 291(2)
About Globe Law and Business 293