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Ted Tjaden
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Legal Writing
Readers should
consult Chapter 12 of my book for more detailed
commentary on legal writing.
There is not very
much freely available online material on legal
writing. However, I do recommend the following sites
or freely available articles:
- Cheryl Stephens, Plain
Language Legal Writing (CBA):
- Clarity
(An International Association Promoting Plain
Legal Language)
Aside from that, some of my favourite
print materials on legal writing are listed below (links
below for each title are to the websites of the
publisher or to Amazon, where available):
Books on legal writing or style more generally:
- Dick, Robert. Legal
Drafting in Plain Language, 3rd ed.
(Toronto, ON: Carswell, 1995).
- Perrin, Timothy. Better
Writing for Lawyers. (Toronto:
Law Society of Upper Canada, 1990).
Books on contract drafting:
Books on written advocacy
- Bullen & Leake &
Jacob's Canadian Precedents of Pleadings,
3rd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2017.
Available from the publisher's website in PDF: Table
of Contents, Index.
- Harris, David et al, eds.
"Chapter 2: Pleadings" in BC
Civil Trial Handbook, 3rd ed.
Loose-leaf. (Vancouver, BC: Continuing
Legal Education Society of British Columbia, 2005).
- How Do You Plead? Breaking
the Bonds of Boilerplate. (Toronto,
ON: Department of Continuing Legal Education, Law
Society of Upper Canada, 1994).
- Perell, Paul & John
Morden. "Chapter 5: Types of Actions, Pleadings
and Applications" in The Law of Civil
Procedure in Ontario, 4th ed. (Markham,
ON: LexisNexis, 2020) (available here on LexisNexis
Quicklaw).
- Van Kessel, Robert &
Edwin Upenieks. "Appendix A: Charts of Causes of
Action, Defences and Their Legal Elements"
in Dispositions Without
Trial, 3rd ed. (Toronto,
ON: LexisNexis Canada, 2019).
Recent selected articles on written advocacy
- Christopher Rusnak, "Effective Legal Writing" in How
to Be a Great Litigation Junior 2019
(Vancouver: CLEBC, 2019).
- Daniella Murynka, "Write Less, Win More" (2016) 46
Adv. Q. 77.
- Adam Lamparello & Charles MacLean, "Beyond the
Rules: Creating Great Writers: Not Just Legal
Writers" (2014) 39:1 Can. L. Libr. Rev. 23.
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Legal
Research and Writing:
4th Edition
by
Ted Tjaden
Softcover 512
pgs.
Published: January 2016
ISBNs:
Paperback: 978-1-55221-414-5
e-book: 978-1-55221-415-2
Purchase
here
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