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    Legal English: Unit-1 Introduction To Legal Language

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    Legal English is an essential course for law students to develop skills in legal communication and advocacy. It covers a range of topics including characteristics of legal language, oral communication skills, legal vocabulary and terminology, principles of legal writing, and general juristic writings. The course aims to make students conversant with legal terminology and the writings of eminent jurists. It also emphasizes developing skills like active listening, questioning, pronunciation, and proficiency in both English and the regional language to effectively interact with clients and argue cases in court.

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    Legal English is an essential course for law students to develop skills in legal communication and advocacy. It covers a range of topics including characteristics of legal language, oral communication skills, legal vocabulary and terminology, principles of legal writing, and general juristic writings. The course aims to make students conversant with legal terminology and the writings of eminent jurists. It also emphasizes developing skills like active listening, questioning, pronunciation, and proficiency in both English and the regional language to effectively interact with clients and argue cases in court.

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    Legal English is an essential course for law students to develop skills in legal communication and advocacy. It covers a range of topics including characteristics of legal language, oral communication skills, legal vocabulary and terminology, principles of legal writing, and general juristic writings. The course aims to make students conversant with legal terminology and the writings of eminent jurists. It also emphasizes developing skills like active listening, questioning, pronunciation, and proficiency in both English and the regional language to effectively interact with clients and argue cases in court.

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    Legal English: Unit-1 Introduction To Legal Language

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    Legal English

    Command of language is an essential quality of a lawyer for presentation of not only pleadings but
    also arguments before a court of law. Efficiency of advocacy depends upon communication skill to a
    substantial extent. No doubt, he should be conversant with the legal terminology. Pricision, clarity
    and cogence are governing principles of legal writing and dialogue. A student of law should get an
    opportunity to be familiar with the writings of eminent jurists of the past. This exposition will stand
    him in good stead in understanding the intricate problems of law and will equip him with the faculty
    of articulation and sound writing.

    Course Contents:

    Unit-1 Introduction to Legal Language.

    1.1. Characteristics of legal Language.

    1.2. Legal Language in India.

    1.3. English as a medium of communication for legal transaction in India.

    Unit-2 Introduction to oral communication stills.

    2.1. Passive and active listening – questioning – non-verbal communication.

    2.2. Listening comprehension.

    Unit-3 Vocabulary.

    3.1. Consulting a dictionary – consulting a thesausus.

    3.2. Synonyms and antonyms – related words – regular vocabulary exercises.

    Unit-4 Phonetics theory and practice.

    4.1. The phonetic script.

    4.2. Consulting a dictionary for pronunciation – exercise with audio aids.

    4.3. Reading exercises – stress, accent and intonation suitable for Indian speaker with emphasis on
    clarity of speech and felicity of expression national.

    4.3.1. Reading comprehension of principals and practice

    (comprehension passage)
    Unit-5 Legal Terminology.

    5.1. Terms used in civil law and criminal law.

    5.2. Latin words and expressions – law register

    (maximums and phrases).

    Unit-6 Fundamental principles of Legal writing.

    6.1. Concision – clarity – cogency – simplicity of structure.

    6.2. Attention and awareness of practical legal import of sentences.

    6.3. Brief writing and drafting of law report – drafting of pleadings.

    6.4. Writing of case comments – drafting of convincing.

    6.5. Essay writing on topics of legal interest – Essay.

    Unit-7 General juristic writings in English.

    Unit-8 Proficiency in regional language.

    (every student should acquire skills of understanding analysis writing and communication in the
    regional language which he has to use in the interaction with the potential client. Necessarily, the
    proficiency in the language will contribute in a substantial measure to a successful practice in law.
    The university academies bodies are given the discretion to evolve 20 units for this purpose).

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