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Theory paper

Legal Language including Legal Writing and General English

A concept paper: legal maxims, interpretation of statutes, law reports and legal writing.

This page is the map of the paper: every syllabus unit, the leading cases with full summaries, and the exam questions the paper actually sets.

Units

  1. Unit 1 · Legal Concepts, Part 1 — Module 1
  2. Unit 2 · Legal Concepts, Part 2 — Module 2
  3. Unit 3 · Legal Concepts, Part 3 — Module 3
  4. Unit 4 · External Aids to Interpretation, and the Rules of Interpretation — Module 4
  5. Unit 5 · General English — Grammar and Transformation — Module 5
  6. Unit 6 · Internal Aids to the Interpretation of a Statute — Module 6
  7. Unit 7 · Law Reports, Citations and Finding Case Law — Module 7
  8. Unit 8 · Legal Writing, Composition and Comprehension — Module 8
  9. Unit 9 · Legal Maxims — Module 9
  10. Unit 10 · Statutes - Meaning, Classification, Parts, Commencement and Repeal — Module 10

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