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Legal drafting

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 30 October 2019 This query is : Resolved 
how to improve legal drafting and which books have to best legal drafting. plz suggest me
KISHAN DUTT KALASKAR (Expert) 31 October 2019
Dear Sir,
Reading books on drafting may not improve your drafting art. You are advised to visit record room of any trial Court or get certified copies of several pleadings drafted by different advocates like plaint, written statement, interim applications, objections to interim applications and orders passed on such IA’s and consequent appellate orders etc…
Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 31 October 2019
THANK YOU SIR FOR FEEDBACK
venkatesh Rao (Expert) 31 October 2019
Well draft is half won. But art of drafting is inborn but it can be inculcated through referring to pleadings before various courts and authorities.
K Rajasekharan (Expert) 02 November 2019
One can improve one’s drafting and writing skills by careful reading of good books on drafting or writing, and employing the essential learning from such books in one’s writing.

Some people have the innate ability to write precisely and in an absorbing manner, but others who do not have such good writing skills can improve a lot by reading books on ‘better writing’ and earnestly practising the lessons they learn from them.

Sorry to say that many of our present day judgements, including the ones delivered by the apex court (some of them run into even more than thousand pages), are good examples of bad drafting or prolix writing.

I have enlisted three good books on writing skills at the end of an introductory article on the topic cited below. The first book added in the list is on non-fiction writing. It would be a great learning tool for anyone interested in improving his / her writing of any kind. The present edition of it is its thirtieth one. Other two books in the list focus on legal writing.

Please see my article and the list for further reading at https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/articles/Tips-on-acquiring-drafting-or-writing-skills--9110.asp



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