working with law.
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It does so for a simple reason. Legal writing for the most
part writes up work that has been done with law. These models are guides for
working with law. Hence, the model that guides the lawyer in performing the
task becomes the structure for writing up the task.
All of this means that the major art to writing a legal text is to create a coherent
overall structure. In consequence, the major task in reading a legal text is to
ascertain that structure. In good legal writing (which sadly is a rare beast) the
structure will be clear. In bad writing it is necessary for the reader to detect or
create the structure as best they might and to the extent that circumstances
allow. In fact, due to the poor state of many legal texts it is often not possible
to read them and to fully understand what they are trying to communicate.
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These are the models for organising, forming and using law. These are
explained in the preceding part of this book.
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