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    How judges decide cases : reading, writing and analysing judgments / Andrew Goodman ; foreword by Lord Faulks QC.

    • Title:How judges decide cases : reading, writing and analysing judgments / Andrew Goodman ; foreword by Lord Faulks QC.
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    • Author/Creator:Goodman, Andrew, LL. B., author.
    • Published/Created:London : Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2018.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Judgments--Great Britain.
      Judicial process--Great Britain.
      Legal composition.
      Practice of law--Great Britain.
    • Edition:Second edition.
    • Description:xxx, 234 pages ; 23 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0854902457 paperback
      9780854902453 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. How Judges Decide Cases
      1.1. Judicial transparency
      1.2. mechanics of fact finding
      1.3. Questions of weight in fact finding
      1.4. Evidence on oath
      1.5. dilemma of impression
      1.6. Menschkeit and judicial civility
      1.7. Conscious and unconscious bias
      1.8. Decision-making in interim applications
      1.9. exercise of judicial discretion
      1.10. Decision-making by tribunals
      2. Appellate Judgment
      2.1. Appellate courts and tribunals
      2.2. Decision-making in the Court of Appeal
      2.3. Dissent
      2.4. appeals and appellate committees of the Supreme Court
      2.5. Delivery of Supreme Court judgments
      2.6. Decision-making by the appellate committee
      2.7. appellate committee and judge-made law
      2.8. Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
      3. Writing Judgments, Decisions and Awards
      3.1. Delivering and writing judgments
      3.2. Preparation
      3.3. Judgment in the lower courts
      3.4. Judicial training
      3.5. On finding facts
      3.6. On addressing the loser
      3.7. On the task in hand
      3.8. On the issue of credibility
      3.9. On the use of language
      3.10. On using counsel's written submissions
      3.11. Personal views on framework
      3.12. Civil fast track
      3.13. Family cases
      3.14. Master's or district judge's application
      3.15. High Court trial
      3.16. Arbitration
      3.17. Writing tribunal decisions
      3.18. general approach
      3.18.1. Identify the issues
      3.18.2. Finding the facts
      3.18.3. Telling the tale
      3.18.4. Setting out the law
      3.18.5. parties' submissions
      3.18.6. Stating the conclusions
      3.19. Majority decisions
      3.20. Interlocutory rulings and orders
      3.21. Model decision-writing for tribunals
      3.22. Writing appellate judgments
      3.23. Appellate tribunal awards
      3.24. Court of Appeal judgments
      4. Reading Judgments
      4.1. Basic principles: focus and time
      4.2. Focus
      4.3. Time
      4.4. Inspectional reading
      4.5. mechanics of analytical reading
      4.6. Form and structure
      4.7. Preparing an analysis
      4.8. Classification
      4.9. Interpretation
      4.10. Deconstruction
      4.11. Syntopical reading
      5. Use of Language in Judgments
      5.1. choice of judicial language
      5.2. Linguistic analysis
      5.3. use of words
      5.4. structure of sentences
      5.5. language of lawyers
      5.6. Contemporary vocabulary and social change
      5.7. Dealing with technical and specialist vocabulary
      5.8. residual use of legal Latin and French
      5.9. Literary style in judgments
      5.10. Judicial literary techniques
      5.11. Imperative and declarative sentences
      5.12. compressive metaphor
      5.13. elegant variation
      5.14. factual allusion
      5.15. literary allusion
      5.16. Simplification of ideas
      5.17. Other techniques
      5.18. impact of distinctive judicial literary style
      6. Analysing Judgments: Reasoning, Argument and Legal Logic
      6.1. Reasoning, argument and legal logic
      6.2. Locating the arguments
      6.3. Units of reasoning
      6.4. Finding the solution
      6.5. domestic approach
      6.6. Judicial reasoning and the role of persuasion
      6.7. Distinguishing grammatical and logical interpretation
      6.8. Positive judicial argument
      6.9. Aids to reasoning
      6.10. judge and the expert
      6.11. use of precedent
      6.12. Precedent and reasoning
      6.13. At the coal face: trial judges
      6.14. Distinguishing your judgment
      6.15. Ratio and obiter
      7. Analysing Judgments: Techniques for Criticism
      7.1. Criticising a judgment fairly
      7.2. Analysing your disagreement objectively
      7.3. Distinguishing between knowledge and opinion
      7.4. focus of your criticism
      7.5. mechanics of fair criticism
      7.6. Uninformed
      7.7. Misinformed
      7.8. Illogical
      7.9. Incompleteness
      7.10. structured critique
      8. Using Law Reports
      8.1. Fundamentals and difficulties
      8.2. functionality of law reports
      8.3. Accuracy in law reporting
      8.4. Editorial anomalies.
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