Litigation Drafting: A Comprehensive Guide
Details
- Learn how to draft complete, correct and effective claims and defences;
- Learn about, practice and improve your drafting skills so that you can continue to develop them at work. If you do not draft your own pleadings, you should be able to better understand pleadings drafted by others; and
- Understand the benefits and risks of using precedents.
Outline
- Endorsing the claim form - avoid the pitfalls
- Statements of case - contract/tort/breach of statutory duty
- Different 'tracks' have different rules
- Identifying the cause of action and avoiding abuse of process
- Defences and tactical drafting
- Requests for further information - Are they an own goal?
- Admissions: recent changes on when to use them
- Amendments: do’s and don’ts
- Drafting witness statements - Tips and traps
- Skeleton arguments demystified
- Exchange of witness statements
- Disclosure of documents
- Issue of the forms and service - drafting simply
FOR WHOM:
Legal Officers and others who perform related functions
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.
DATE:
1ST BATCH: 28th June– 1st July, 2022
2ND BATCH: 13th – 16th Dec, 2022
Speaker/s
Special Offer
Schedules
| Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri | 10:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
| No. of Days: | 4 |
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