The Write House

We celebrate with the Nigerian legal community, especially the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), on the forthcoming 2015 NBA Annual General Conference Abuja. As one of our contributions to the development of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) in Nigeria, we have reduced the price of our brief-writing book, Anatomy of a Brief , to N3000. The Write […]

Chelsea Hotel Abuja, 24-25 June 2015 Brief Writing Masterclass is boldly interdisciplinary in its approach to persuasive writing. Communications theory, linguistics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and semantics combine with law to make this course absolutely peerless. Winning Briefs, Winnowing Issues To write a winning brief, you must first winnow the issues. Justice Antonin Scalia of the […]

‘The Write Partner’ assesses, criticizes, or praises the language of selected passages from Nigeria’s leading law reports. Aikhadueki [2014] 15 NWLR (Part 1431) 530- Supreme Court of Nigeria Under Facts, the law reporter begins as follows: The appellant was arraigned with other accused persons at the High Court of Imo State, Orlu and charged with […]

Kayode Sofola SAN reminds advocates to call a spade a spade, and not an agricultural implement. Sofola has a firm command of English and an ear for the apt expression. He is blessed with a literary turn of mind. He also points out that people would say methodology when method would do just fine; conditionality […]

Here is the program for this week’s 2-day workshop on Brief Writing Masterclass: Day 1- Wednesday 25 March 2015 8.00-9.00am: • Registration & Distribution of Materials (Ibukun Anibijuwon) • Seating of Participants according to Work Groups (Ololade Olukowi) • Tea and Networking (Enobong Ubia & Senator Ihenyen) 9.00-9.45am: Think before you write/Use Flowers paradigm/Case Theory […]

Sheraton Hotel Ikeja Lagos, 25-26 March 2015 Brief Writing Masterclass is boldly interdisciplinary in its approach to persuasive writing. Communications theory, linguistics, logic, psychology, and rhetoric are just a few of the disciplines that combine to make this course peerless. Issue formulation is the backbone of successful brief writing. Justice Antonin Scalia of the US […]

The plain English movement in legal writing is spirited in most advanced jurisdictions, common law and civil law alike. The European Union (herself civil-law-dominant) is part of this movement. EU Directives are drafted in better and clearer legal prose than traditional legislation in our common-law world. Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US are all […]

Global Legal English is the international organization behind The Test of Legal English Skills (TOLES). Global Legal English has issued a permanent certificate to The Write House as a TOLES centre. The Write House is getting this special recognition after several years as the accredited representative in Nigeria of TOLES. TOLES is a member of […]

To be patentable, an invention must be: 1. novel, 2. nonobvious (it must involve an inventive step), and 3. useful (capable of industrial application). To be publishable, a piece of academic legal writing must make a claim that is: 1. novel, 2. nonobvious, and 3. useful. The claim a piece of academic legal writing makes […]