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Legal prose is often a more pedestrian venture than a novel or a
poem. However, even the pedestrian can be done well. The views of
the professional writers considered in this book identify how
lawyers can write legal prose well, and sometimes even beautifully.
This book provides key lessons on legal writing that can be gleaned
from various leading authors of the past and brought to bear in
crafting more polished legal texts. Among the great authors
considered are Joseph Conrad, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster,
Thomas Hardy, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson
and Virginia Woolf. Central themes identified are: Legal writing
should never be too difficult to understand; Great writers have
much to teach the legal writer; Good writing requires hard work;
Professional jargon is generally best avoided; and The truth is
always pure, often simple, and generally best expressed in plain
English. This book contains invaluable guidance to help all those
involved in legal writing to hone their writing skills, while
providing an engaging tour through the works of great authors from
the past. All after-tax author royalties from this book will be
donated to the Ukrainian relief efforts of the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent movement.
Judges are increasingly aware that the best way of enhancing public
confidence in court systems is not only by providing a quality
service but doing so compassionately and respectfully. The art and
craft of judgment-writing is a critical element of this process.
This book looks at the judgments of historically great
judgment-writers from the US, UK and wider common law world (in
particular Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Israel and New
Zealand). It is written not from the perspective of what the author
can teach but with the aim of identifying essential elements of
good judgment-writing in great judgments and insightful commentary.
Written by Dr Max Barrett, a judge of the High Court of Ireland,
individual chapters focus on subjects such as judgment purpose,
length, style and structure, concurring and dissenting judgments,
judgment-writing for children and vulnerable parties, as well as
more general lessons in good writing offered by great authors from
Orwell to Twain. Among the lessons to be taken from great common
law judges are that: a good judgment possesses an ability to rise
above immediate facts and to see a problem in its wider
perspective; a sense of empathy/sympathy for those faring badly is
always important; and there is nothing wrong with language that is
occasionally flowery and ornate; however, the best judgments are
crisp and persuasive. A great author such as Mark Twain teaches,
for example, that: every element of a judgment should be necessary
to that judgment and any unnecessary element excised; any person or
event included in a judgment should be included for a reason; and a
judge should always use the right word for what she wants to state,
'not its second cousin'. This book is intended for novice superior
court judges, their more seasoned colleagues and all with an
interest in legal writing (including legal practitioners, law
teachers and law students). Lower-court judges required to write
judgments should find the book valuable; and judges at all levels
should find the additional chapter on ex tempore judgments of use.
Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act 2010: Annotated is a
detailed and expert annotation of the Criminal Justice (Money
Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010. The Act implements
the Third Money Laundering Directive in Ireland. It replaces the
Criminal Justice Act 1994 as the legislative centrepiece of
Ireland's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing
regime. This annotated version of the new Act considers the: *
Risk-based customer due diligence (or "CDD") requirements that the
Act introduces * New provisions concerning politically exposed
persons. * Reporting requirements arising under the Act. * Offence
of "tipping off". * Provisions for the monitoring of designated
persons by competent authorities. * Authorisation of trust or
company service providers. * Approval of guidelines by the Minister
for Justice and Law Reform. * Registration of persons directing
private members' clubs at which gambling activities are carried on.
* "Whistle-blowing" or "good faith reporting" provision made in the
Act. This book also seeks to set the Act in its historical and
wider legal context, making reference to international and European
measures, most particularly the Third Money Laundering Directive,
where appropriate. In addition the text identifies and briefly
considers all the secondary legislation that has, at the time of
writing, been made pursuant to the Act.
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