Linguistic Revision and Linguistic Controls for Drafting Legislation

Methodology

This course is highly interactive, focusing primarily on group discussions, case studies, practical applications, and group activities to enhance the learning experience.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Use correct legal vocabulary and terminology when communicating with clients and legal professionals, and become familiar with modern legal writing styles.

Recognize common language errors and be able to identify prepositions and precise collocations in a legal context, particularly in written contracts.

Improve reading and text comprehension skills for legal documents and demonstrate accurate written solutions within a legal context.

Target Audience

This course is aimed at legal professionals, specialists, translators, contract writers, and managers who have a good level of general English and wish to acquire skills in using legal vocabulary.

Target competencies

Definition of legal drafting, its importance, and its elements

Legal sentence structure from a linguistic standpoint and qualities of good legal drafting

Legal drafting problems

Legal drafting rules and stages

Levels of communication and the origins of writing and discourse at hierarchical levels

The most common terms in law