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Case Preparation 2007-2008
By
Inns of Court School of Law
Description
* Provides a
comprehensive guide to the skill of case preparation, enabling
students to use their academic legal training to meet the demands
they will encounter in practice
* An
up-to-date guide on how to gain maximum benefit from the various
sources of legal information now available to the student, from
electronic to hard-copy, ensuring that students can have complete
confidence in their responses to a legal problem
* Reinforces
students\\\' learning through worked examples and exercises so that they
are ready to face the complex siutations arising in professional
practice.
New to this edition
* Fully
updated for 2007-08 to include all recent developments in the field.
Thorough
preparation is the vital first step to winning a case. Case
Preparation provides students with practical advice on how to
identify the relevant law and effectively manage the facts at their
disposal in order to present a convincing argument.
Efficient legal
research is an essential skill for the barrister. In this manual all
the important aspects of good research are identified and explained
so that the student can feel at ease with the tools and techniques
they will use in professional life. The research section of the
manual takes full account of the availability of electronic
resources.
The skills needed
to master the set of facts from which a legal action arises are fully
explained using the systematic C.A.P. (Context, Analyse, Present)
approach. This provides students with an efficient and reliable
method for preparing watertight answers to legal problems. Realistic
sets of papers are used to demonstrate this step-by-step approach,
with reference to both civil and criminal cases. Further sets of
papers are also provided for practising case preparation skills.
Readership:
Students studying on the Bar Vocational Course.
Contents
1. Preparation: a
forensic skill
2. Introduction to
legal research
3. Getting to know
the lawyer\\\'s tools
4. Starting to
research
5. Cold-starting
6. Following
through
7. Researching
words and phrases
8. Using
electronic research tools
9. Reading and
interpreting a case
10. Legal sources
for the practitioner
11. Practical
legal research
12. Overview of a
civil case
13. Anatomy of a
criminal case
14. The fact
management process
15. The C.A.P.
approach in action
16. The civil
brief
17. The criminal
brief
18. Dealing with
figures
19. IT use in case
preparation and presentation
20.
Self-assessment exercises
Appendix 1:
Glossary of medical terms
Appendix 2:
Wigmore analysis charts
Appendix 3:
Completed chart for R v. Penny
Further reading
Authors, editors, and contributors
The City Law School
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