Diploma in Legal Argumentation Skills
Contents:
- General Principles of Drafting and Relevant Substantive Rules:
- Drafting and Conveyancing relating to Various Deeds and Agreements(Sale Agreements, E-Contracts, Leave and License, IPR Agreements, Promissory Note, Power of Attorney- General and Special, Will, Relinquishment Deed, Deed of Dissolution of Partnership, Hire-Purchase Agreement, Deed of Sale of Land, Building, Mortgage, License, Lease, Assignment, Trust, Gift, Partnership, Drafting of Writs, Partnership Deed, Sale Agreements, Collaboration Agreements, Hypothecation Agreements, Drafting of Legal Opinion, Shareholder’s Agreement etc.)
- Pleading: Meaning and Importance -Functions of Pleadings – Essentials of Pleading – Particulars of Pleading – Striking out pleadings- Signing and verification.
- Civil Pleadings and criminal pleadings – Substantive Aspects and Drafts (Plaints, complaints, written statements, appeals, FIR, bail applications etc.)
- Legislation Research(Primary and Secondary), Intellectual Property research, Regulatory and Administrative Law Research, International legal research, Case Law Research, Multi-Jurisdictional Research, Issue based Research, Compliance/ Regulatory Research, Market/ competition research, Cause of Action Research, Legal Articles and docs, Case Summaries, Foreign Law Research, Forthcoming laws research, Second Opinions, Legal Briefs etc.
Objectives:
- To attain expert knowledge of all kinds of drafting, pleadings and advocacy techniques.
- To develop extensive legal writing skills with respective citations, legal terminologies and precedents.
- To equip students in expressing important legal amendments, updations and issues in own words, to increase the general understanding of complex legal documents.
- To empower students to think in different ways and to express different interpretations of legal text, so as to increase the understanding of legal topics from different perspectives.
- To make original legal text more comprehensible, lucid and logical.
- To make implications of complex legal laws and documents clearer.
- To develop creative thinking, analytical skills and legal research skills
- To develop extensive legal research techniques of literature/ previously published material/empirical surveys including collection of data through interviews, surveys, observations, questionnaires etc.

Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 6 Months
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 206
- Assessments Yes