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In Donoghue v Stevenson, Mrs Donoghue went to a café with her friend. The friend bought Donoghue a bottle of ginger beer. She drank it half-way, only to find a snail’s decomposed remains in the opaque bottle. Disgusted, outraged, and sickened, Donoghue successfully sued the ginger-beer brewer. Since Donoghue v Stevenson, the legal rules protecting […]
When you write as we teach, you will “analyze cogently, organize logically, distill accurately, argue persuasively, cite knowledgeably, punctuate skillfully, and phrase smoothly.” Bryan A. Garner. Brief-Writing Masterclass boasts an unparalleled curriculum of persuasive advocacy brewed from an alchemical blend of ethics, law, linguistics, ethics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and semantics. Brief-Writing Masterclass is a challenging, intensive, […]
Since the new Evidence Act was enacted in 2011, Nigerian courts have been called upon to pronounce on admissibility of electronic evidence. Though section 84 of the Evidence Act governs admissibility of electronic evidence, the courts’ interpretation and application of section 84 have been inconsistent. With conflicting judgments from our courts, how can bench and […]
As lawyers, we must not desert cool common sense in our hot pursuit of common law. Uncommon Law of Learned Writing promotes common sense in legal language. Plain language, which is commonsensical, broadens access to legal documents, thus democratizing the law. No democratic society should brook legalese, a dense, verbose dialect known only to lawyers. What then should society […]
When you write as we teach, you will “analyze cogently, organize logically, distill accurately, argue persuasively, cite knowledgeably, punctuate skillfully, and phrase smoothly.” Bryan A. Garner. Brief-Writing Masterclass blends ethics, law, linguistics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and semantics to produce an unparalleled curriculum of persuasive advocacy. Brief-Writing Masterclass is a challenging, intensive, and interactive 4-day workshop with a course […]
Since the new Evidence Act was enacted in 2011, Nigerian courts have been called upon to pronounce on admissibility of electronic evidence. Though section 84 of the Evidence Act governs admissibility of electronic evidence, the courts’ interpretation and application of section 84 have been inconsistent. With conflicting judgments from our courts, how can bench and […]
When you write as we teach, you will “analyze cogently, organize logically, distill accurately, argue persuasively, cite knowledgeably, punctuate skillfully, and phrase smoothly.” Bryan A. Garner. Brief-Writing Masterclass blends ethics, law, linguistics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and semantics to produce an unparalleled curriculum of persuasive advocacy. Brief-Writing Masterclass is a challenging, intensive, and interactive 3-day workshop with a course […]
When you write as we teach, you will “analyze cogently, organize logically, distill accurately, argue persuasively, cite knowledgeably, punctuate skillfully, and phrase smoothly.” Bryan A. Garner. Brief-Writing Masterclass blends ethics, law, linguistics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and semantics to produce an unparalleled curriculum of persuasive advocacy. Brief-Writing Masterclass is a challenging, intensive, and interactive 3-day workshop with a course […]
Brief-Writing Masterclass, Partridge, 2017, is out. This just-published work on written advocacy is authored by Chinua Asuzu, Dean of The Write House. Please preview the book here: www.briefwriting.net. Brief-Writing Masterclass is now available in Nigeria. With institutional support, we’re now able to offer Brief-Writing Masterclass at half the price, for a limited time: 1 November 2017 to […]