PODNESCI U GRAĐANSKOM POSTUPKU (SADRŽINA I VEŠTINA SASTAVLJANJA)
SUBMISSIONS IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS (CONTENTS AND DRAFTING SKILLS)

Summary/Abstract: Brief writing is one of the biggest problems law graduates encounter at the start of their professional careers, when there's a need to put the acquired knowledge into practice. Very little attention is being paid to this, even though it's the art that must be mastered. Knowing the word of law is not enough by itself. A quality brief requires the combination of the art of writing and legal knowledge. It is not sufficient for a brief to be appropriate, since it also has to be linguistically and logically correct. When it comes to a brief writing style, it is here that young lawyers face difficulties the most. Namely, they learn the rules on the content of a brief prescribed by law; nevertheless, a writing style is not something that can be crammed. Legal or, so called, legalistic writing style and legal language are to be held distinct from the literary ones. In this paper, we strive to also put emphasis on some basic rules on writing legal documents, language, style and technical instructions.We have focused our attention, above all, on composing briefs. Nonetheless, it goes without saying that these rules should be followed for other legal documents as well.

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