Open AccessLegal Writing
Author(s) -
I D Campbell
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
victoria university of wellington law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-3082
pISSN - 1171-042X
DOI - 10.26686/vuwlr.v30i2.6004
Subject(s) - clarity , argument (complex analysis) , consistency (knowledge bases) , work (physics) , project commissioning , law , legal writing , sociology , publishing , political science , epistemology , engineering ethics , engineering , legal research , computer science , philosophy , medicine , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , artificial intelligence
This issue of the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review provides an opportunity for students to develop their skill in written analysis and argument. In turn, the author uses this issue as an opportunity to consider the standards by which a writer should be guided both in their own creative work and in assessing the work of others by using Professor W Friedmann's Law and Social Change in Contemporary Britain as a framework. According to the author, legal writing requires absolute integrity to the facts, full candour as to the facts, avoiding distortion and straw-men targets in arguments, consistency, and clarity and accuracy.