Description
To validate their institutional continuance as a branch of government, judges and magistrates must make sound decisions. They must also articulate and express those decisions efficiently and comprehensibly.
Judicial Writing: A Benchmark for the Bench demonstrates how to attain mastery in judicial writing. The program will help judges, magistrates, arbitrators, and other decision-writers master the art and science of judicial writing.
Judicial Writing: A Benchmark for the Bench will enable you reach just and sound decisions by:
- sharpening your analytical skills;
- honing your issue-spotting acumen; and
- deepening your precedent-application prowess.
Target audience
- Arbitrators
- Grand Kadis and Kadis
- Judges in Federal High Courts, High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, and State High Courts
- Judges in the National Industrial Court
- Judicial Assistants
- Justices of the Supreme Court
- Justices of the Court of Appeal
- Justices of the Customary Court of Appeal and Sharia Court of Appeal
- Magistrates
- Tribunal Judges and Commissioners
Features:
- Introduction
- Anatomy of a Judgment
- Issues for determination (Reformulate the issues and answer them with reasons)
- The Introduction (Write an executive summary)
- Facts and Procedural History (Narrate the pertinent facts and procedural history: recount only information relevant to your analysis of the outcome)
- Analysis and Discussions (Analyze, discuss, and synthesize the parties’ arguments, authorities, evidence, facts, and law. Explain your reasoning and point to your conclusion.)
- Conclusion and Disposition (Close your decisions by granting, modifying, or refusing relief,; issuing directions; or remanding the case.)
- Logic and Clear Thought
- Language and Style
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