This course builds on the skills acquired in the previous English skills for legal study course but the focus is now on writing solutions to legal problems within a time limit. Students learn to retrieve and structure their knowledge of tort law as they frame written responses to the kinds of legal issues typically found in tutorial and examination questions. The initial focus is at the level of overall organization of arguments and then on the control of grammar, vocabulary and stylistic features.
Students receive substantial individual feedback on their own writing.
Achievement is wholly by coursework. This course is designed to teach the basic skills of practical Chinese, to help students learn the characteristics of Chinese legal language so as to be able to express ideas and opinions in Chinese in a legal context, as well as to enable students to realize that language proficiency is a lifelong self-learning process. The course, which lasts for one semester, will include teaching in a vareity of basic practical Chinese writing skills, with an emphasis on the writing of Chinese legal language. Equal weight will be given to coursework and examination in assessment. Domestic protection of human rights under the common law and by constitutional entrenchment.