Unit 5 of Legal Language including Legal Writing and General English (syllabus: Module 5). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- How do you change a sentence from the active voice to the passive?
- How do you turn direct speech into indirect speech?
- How do you change the degree of comparison without changing the meaning?
- Why does punctuation matter in a legal document?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Leading cases
- Wren & Martin
- Aswini Kumar Ghosh v. Arabinda Bose (AIR 1952 SC 369)