1. English Law & Communication Skills (Private Practice)
* Introduction to the English legal System
- Comparison with delegates’ systems
- Introduction to English Contract Law
* Essential principles of liability under English law
- Core Legal Terminology
- Terminology in delegates’’ areas of practice
* Contractual rights under English Law
- Remedies in Equity and at Common Law
- Contractual Vs Tortious liability and remedies
- Basic Civil Litigation terms and procedure
- disclosure to trial, judgment and eventual enforcement
- Communication skills: client briefing, conference, presentation
- writing skills.
2. Contract Drafting
* Key aspects of the English legal System
- How the system affects contract drafting
- Basic principles of English Contract Law
* Basic principles of liability under English Law
- The relationship between tortious and contractual liability
- The effect of tortious and contractual liability on drafting
* The structure of International commercial agreements
- Key Terminology and its uses
- Commonly confused and misapplied terminology in International agreements
- Advanced proofing techniques
- re-drafting of problematic clauses
- practice in drafting standard clauses in International agreements.
3. English Law and communication
* Introduction to the English Legal System
- Comparison with delegate’s system
- Introduction to English Contract Law
* English Corporate Law 2 : Corporate Structure and Governance
- Some current issues in Corporate Governance
- Some current issues in International Practice
- commercial practice: Intellectual Property, Employment and Arbitration
- Presentation, negotiation and professional writing skills
4. English Law & Communication
* Introduction to English Law
- Comparison with delegates’ own Law
- Introduction to English Contract Law
* Rights of ownership under English Law
- Encumbrances to Title
- Loan Agreements
* Financial Law & Terminology
- Secured Transactions : Charges & Liens
- Negotiable Instruments & Promissory Notes
- as the subprime crisis,
- fraud and white-collar crime
- ECB stress- testing,
- the future of the Eurozone
- financial markets post-Brexit .
5. Written English Communication
* Key aspects of English Law
- The effect of background Law on the drafting of legal documents
- Common legal terminology in legal documents
* The construction of liability under English law
- The effect of liability principles on the drafting of legal documents
- Essential terminology in commercial legal documents
* The relationship between contractual and tortious liability
- The effect of such liability on the drafting of legal documents
- Essential terminology in corporate legal documents
- advanced proofing,
- editing and re-writing technique
- drafting correspondence
