Writing Modern Legal English
Would you like to improve your legal English? This seminar will help you adapt to the new and significant changes in the style of modern legal English.
Kursavgift
Medlemmer: 2 200 NOK ekskl. mva.
Andre: 2 900 NOK ekskl. mva.
Pris for abonnenter 0 NOK
INNFØRINGSKURS
Hva lærer du?
Writing Modern Legal English
"The chief virtue that language can have is clarity." – Hippocrates
A one-day seminar meant to help Norwegian lawyers adapt to the new and significant changes in the style of modern legal English.
Old-style legal English has been described by Mark Fisher of the BBC as "Unbearably, maddeningly, mind-numbingly pompous." Admirers of modern legal English agree with him. New style is the English written in the modern commercial world - by our clients. It is supported by the English and US judiciary, bar associations, and influential legal writing experts such as Bryan Garner and Kenneth Adams.
By the end of the seminar, participants will be able to recognise old-style text and turn it into something clear and fresh.
Hvem passer kurset for?
Kurset vil hjelpe advokater og jurister med å modernisere det juridiske skriftspråket sitt.
Too many lawyers believe that it is essential to legal English that one write as pompously as possible, using words and phrases that have long since disappeared from normal English discourseHon. Antonin Scalia U.S. Supreme Court
Leksjoner
Leksjon 1) Introduction to Writing Modern Legal English
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Advokat Kevin Harris, Acorn English Consultants AB |
| Leksjon 2) Orwell’s rule number one – Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. | |
| Leksjon 3) Throat clearing phrases are also often clichés | |
| Leksjon 4) E-mail etiquette and stock phrases | |
Leksjon 5) Orwell’s rule number two – Never use a long word when a short word will do.
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| Leksjon 6) Keep the subject and the verb together | |
Leksjon 7) Orwell’s rule number three
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Leksjon 8) Be friends with the negative form
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Leksjon 9) Eliminate the "of"-phrases
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| Leksjon 10) Orwell’s rule number four – Never use the passive where you can use the active | |
Leksjon 11) Orwell’s rule number five – Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of any everyday English equivalent.
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Leksjon 12) Orwell’s rule number six – Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
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Kurset er tilgjengelig i 180 dager fra kjøpsdato eller så lenge du har aktivt abonnement.
Publisert: 20. des. 2021
