Legal technique /
Enright, Christopher,
Legal technique / Christopher Enright. - xxxvii, 565 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-550) and index.
INTRODUCTION -- Legal Technique -- Introduction -- Purpose of this Book -- Simple Techniques -- Gentle Readers -- Outline -- Symbols -- Symbols -- Introduction -- Basic Labels -- Lists of Options -- Causal Laws -- Concepts -- Concepts -- The State -- Introduction -- Institutions -- Functions -- Philosophical Concepts -- Introduction -- Causation -- Values -- Natural Law and Positivism -- Rational and Irrational Decisions -- Legal Technique -- Probability -- Introduction -- Measuring Probability -- Estimating Probability -- Calculating Probability -- Things Lawyers Use -- Introduction -- Law -- Facts -- Law and Facts -- Evidence -- Procedures -- Matters Lawyers Perform -- Introduction -- Litigation -- Transactions -- Transaction to Litigation -- Comparisons -- MAKING AND INTERPRETING LAW -- Introduction -- Making and Interpreting Law -- Introduction -- Model for Legal Reasoning -- Model for Making Law -- Model for Interpreting Law -- Use of the Models -- Outline of Part 2 -- Options -- Options -- Laws -- Introduction -- Making Statutes -- Making Common Law -- Meanings -- Introduction -- Classification of Ambiguity -- Suppressed Ambiguity -- Ascertaining the Ambiguity -- Effects -- Introduction -- Causes -- Effects -- Reasons -- Introduction -- Reasons -- Introduction -- Traditional View -- Alternative View -- Decision Maker's Perspective -- Outline -- Formulating Reasons -- Policy -- Introduction -- Basis -- Model -- Classification -- Procedure -- Policy: Making Law -- Introduction -- Options -- Reasons -- Decision -- Policy: Interpreting Law -- Introduction -- Options -- Reasons -- Decision -- Principle -- Introduction -- Basis -- Making Law -- Interpreting Law -- Precedent -- Introduction -- Ratio Decedendi -- Stare Decisis -- Basis of Precedent -- Absolute Values -- Relative Values -- Causation -- Outline -- Precedent: Ratio Decidendi -- Introduction -- Ratio Decidendi -- Obiter Dictum -- Legal Technique -- Precedent: Stare Decisis -- Introduction -- Courts in the Same Hierarchy -- Courts' Own Prior Decision -- Courts Outside the Hierarchy -- Precedent in Use -- Introduction -- Statute of Law -- Common Law -- Precedent Restated -- Other Sources of Reasons -- Introduction -- Rules -- Legal Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Prior Statutes -- Weighing Reasons -- Weighing Reasons -- Introduction -- Precedent -- Principle -- Policy -- Displacing Reasons -- Displacing Reasons -- Introduction -- Personal Factors -- Social Factors -- Environmental Factors -- Decision -- Decision -- Introduction -- Making Law -- Interpreting Law -- Predicting the Decision -- USING LAW -- Introduction -- Using Law -- Introduction -- Model for Using Law -- Model for Litigation -- Model for Transactions -- Use of the Models -- Outline of Part 3 -- Tasks in Using Law -- Introduction -- Preliminary Tasks -- Interpreting Law -- Organising Law -- Establishing Facts -- Applying Law to Facts -- Organising Law -- Introductions -- Organising Law -- Introduction -- Technique -- Illustration -- Outline -- Micro Analysis -- Micro Analysis -- Introduction -- Legal Consequences -- Check List of Elements -- Legal Consequences -- Introduction -- Institutions -- Litigation -- Transactions -- Check List of Elements -- Introduction -- Elements -- Check List -- Macro Analysis -- Macro Analysis -- Introduction -- Formal Relationships -- Functional Relatinships -- Illustrations -- Organising Law: Illustrations -- Introduction -- Tort Law -- Criminal Law -- Property Law -- Contract Law -- Equity Law -- Statutory Action -- Legal Technique --Agency Law -- Company Law -- Public Law -- Establishing Facts -- Introduction -- Establishing Facts -- Introduction -- Proving Facts with Evidence -- Creating Facts with Evidence -- Proving Facts with Evidence -- Proving Facts With Evidence -- Introduction 405 --Terms -- Outline -- Versions of Truth -- Introduction -- Presenting Facts -- Versions of Facts -- Probability of Truth -- Introduction -- Specific Facts -- Overall Version -- Party's Case -- Standard of Truth -- Introduction -- Onus of Proof -- Standard of Proof -- Measurement -- Creating Facts with Procedures -- Creating Facts With Procedures -- Introduction -- Procedures -- Compliance -- Applying Law -- Applying Law to Facts -- Introduction -- Preliminary Tasks -- Applying Law -- Issues --Interpretation -- Writing the Result -- Illustration -- 2 Interpreting Law -- Introduction -- Ambiguity -- Reasons -- Decision -- WRITING AND READING LAW -- Writing and Reading Law -- Introduction -- Model for Writing Law -- Model for Reading Law -- Outline of Part 4 -- Writing Law -- Introduction -- Statutes -- Judgments -- Textbooks -- Briefs of Statutes and Cases -- Summaries -- Legal Documents -- Opinions -- Answers to Problem Questions -- Reading Law -- Introduction -- Statutes -- Cases -- Textbooks -- Diagrams for Statutes -- Diagrams for Facts. PART 1. Division 1. 1. Division 2. 2. Division 3. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. PART 2. Division 1. 9. Division 2. 10. 11. 12. 13. Division 3. Subdivision 1. 14. Subdivision 2. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Subdivision 3. 24. Subdivision 4. 25. Division 4. 26. PART 3. Division 1. 27. 28. Division 2. Subdivision 1. 29. Subdivision 2. 30. 31. 32. Subdivision 3. 33. Subdivision 4. 34. Division 3. Subdivision 1. 35. Subdivision 2. 36. 37. 38. 39. Subdivision 3. 40. Division 4. 41. 4. PART 4. 43. 44. 45. APPENDIX 1 APPENDIX 2
"How should lawyers go about their tasks in working with law, in making, interpreting, using, reading and writing law? Enright's book describes clear and simple techniques for working with law. It explains why the technique is needed and what it achieves, and then provides a model for doing it. Each model consists of a step by step guide for performing the relevant task. Legal Technique is structured to be the textbook in an introductory law course where the techniques are described, and intended for re-use in later courses on substantive law where these techniques must be further taught and practised in the context of those subjects."--Publisher.
1862874123 9781862874121
Practice of law
Law--Study and teaching
KU 50 / .E58 2002
347.0504
Legal technique / Christopher Enright. - xxxvii, 565 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-550) and index.
INTRODUCTION -- Legal Technique -- Introduction -- Purpose of this Book -- Simple Techniques -- Gentle Readers -- Outline -- Symbols -- Symbols -- Introduction -- Basic Labels -- Lists of Options -- Causal Laws -- Concepts -- Concepts -- The State -- Introduction -- Institutions -- Functions -- Philosophical Concepts -- Introduction -- Causation -- Values -- Natural Law and Positivism -- Rational and Irrational Decisions -- Legal Technique -- Probability -- Introduction -- Measuring Probability -- Estimating Probability -- Calculating Probability -- Things Lawyers Use -- Introduction -- Law -- Facts -- Law and Facts -- Evidence -- Procedures -- Matters Lawyers Perform -- Introduction -- Litigation -- Transactions -- Transaction to Litigation -- Comparisons -- MAKING AND INTERPRETING LAW -- Introduction -- Making and Interpreting Law -- Introduction -- Model for Legal Reasoning -- Model for Making Law -- Model for Interpreting Law -- Use of the Models -- Outline of Part 2 -- Options -- Options -- Laws -- Introduction -- Making Statutes -- Making Common Law -- Meanings -- Introduction -- Classification of Ambiguity -- Suppressed Ambiguity -- Ascertaining the Ambiguity -- Effects -- Introduction -- Causes -- Effects -- Reasons -- Introduction -- Reasons -- Introduction -- Traditional View -- Alternative View -- Decision Maker's Perspective -- Outline -- Formulating Reasons -- Policy -- Introduction -- Basis -- Model -- Classification -- Procedure -- Policy: Making Law -- Introduction -- Options -- Reasons -- Decision -- Policy: Interpreting Law -- Introduction -- Options -- Reasons -- Decision -- Principle -- Introduction -- Basis -- Making Law -- Interpreting Law -- Precedent -- Introduction -- Ratio Decedendi -- Stare Decisis -- Basis of Precedent -- Absolute Values -- Relative Values -- Causation -- Outline -- Precedent: Ratio Decidendi -- Introduction -- Ratio Decidendi -- Obiter Dictum -- Legal Technique -- Precedent: Stare Decisis -- Introduction -- Courts in the Same Hierarchy -- Courts' Own Prior Decision -- Courts Outside the Hierarchy -- Precedent in Use -- Introduction -- Statute of Law -- Common Law -- Precedent Restated -- Other Sources of Reasons -- Introduction -- Rules -- Legal Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Prior Statutes -- Weighing Reasons -- Weighing Reasons -- Introduction -- Precedent -- Principle -- Policy -- Displacing Reasons -- Displacing Reasons -- Introduction -- Personal Factors -- Social Factors -- Environmental Factors -- Decision -- Decision -- Introduction -- Making Law -- Interpreting Law -- Predicting the Decision -- USING LAW -- Introduction -- Using Law -- Introduction -- Model for Using Law -- Model for Litigation -- Model for Transactions -- Use of the Models -- Outline of Part 3 -- Tasks in Using Law -- Introduction -- Preliminary Tasks -- Interpreting Law -- Organising Law -- Establishing Facts -- Applying Law to Facts -- Organising Law -- Introductions -- Organising Law -- Introduction -- Technique -- Illustration -- Outline -- Micro Analysis -- Micro Analysis -- Introduction -- Legal Consequences -- Check List of Elements -- Legal Consequences -- Introduction -- Institutions -- Litigation -- Transactions -- Check List of Elements -- Introduction -- Elements -- Check List -- Macro Analysis -- Macro Analysis -- Introduction -- Formal Relationships -- Functional Relatinships -- Illustrations -- Organising Law: Illustrations -- Introduction -- Tort Law -- Criminal Law -- Property Law -- Contract Law -- Equity Law -- Statutory Action -- Legal Technique --Agency Law -- Company Law -- Public Law -- Establishing Facts -- Introduction -- Establishing Facts -- Introduction -- Proving Facts with Evidence -- Creating Facts with Evidence -- Proving Facts with Evidence -- Proving Facts With Evidence -- Introduction 405 --Terms -- Outline -- Versions of Truth -- Introduction -- Presenting Facts -- Versions of Facts -- Probability of Truth -- Introduction -- Specific Facts -- Overall Version -- Party's Case -- Standard of Truth -- Introduction -- Onus of Proof -- Standard of Proof -- Measurement -- Creating Facts with Procedures -- Creating Facts With Procedures -- Introduction -- Procedures -- Compliance -- Applying Law -- Applying Law to Facts -- Introduction -- Preliminary Tasks -- Applying Law -- Issues --Interpretation -- Writing the Result -- Illustration -- 2 Interpreting Law -- Introduction -- Ambiguity -- Reasons -- Decision -- WRITING AND READING LAW -- Writing and Reading Law -- Introduction -- Model for Writing Law -- Model for Reading Law -- Outline of Part 4 -- Writing Law -- Introduction -- Statutes -- Judgments -- Textbooks -- Briefs of Statutes and Cases -- Summaries -- Legal Documents -- Opinions -- Answers to Problem Questions -- Reading Law -- Introduction -- Statutes -- Cases -- Textbooks -- Diagrams for Statutes -- Diagrams for Facts. PART 1. Division 1. 1. Division 2. 2. Division 3. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. PART 2. Division 1. 9. Division 2. 10. 11. 12. 13. Division 3. Subdivision 1. 14. Subdivision 2. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Subdivision 3. 24. Subdivision 4. 25. Division 4. 26. PART 3. Division 1. 27. 28. Division 2. Subdivision 1. 29. Subdivision 2. 30. 31. 32. Subdivision 3. 33. Subdivision 4. 34. Division 3. Subdivision 1. 35. Subdivision 2. 36. 37. 38. 39. Subdivision 3. 40. Division 4. 41. 4. PART 4. 43. 44. 45. APPENDIX 1 APPENDIX 2
"How should lawyers go about their tasks in working with law, in making, interpreting, using, reading and writing law? Enright's book describes clear and simple techniques for working with law. It explains why the technique is needed and what it achieves, and then provides a model for doing it. Each model consists of a step by step guide for performing the relevant task. Legal Technique is structured to be the textbook in an introductory law course where the techniques are described, and intended for re-use in later courses on substantive law where these techniques must be further taught and practised in the context of those subjects."--Publisher.
1862874123 9781862874121
Practice of law
Law--Study and teaching
KU 50 / .E58 2002
347.0504