Content:

This module aims at enabling the trainees to draft all legal documents in three languages (French, English, and Kinyarwanda). It includes the following courses: General principles of drafting, Agreements and contracts, Corporate documents, Court documents, Legislative drafting, Moot Court.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

• Define principles of drafting a legal document;
• Identify different elements of a law, a contract, a judgment and a corporate statute;
• Illustrate the meaning of words or phrases in a law, a contract, a judgment and a corporate statute (statuts d’une societe ou d’une association).

Cognitive/Intellectual skills/Application of Knowledge

• Differentiate a legal document from other documents;
• Identify the intention of the author of legal document;
• Attribute to each legal document its legal value and its legal implications;
• Draft legal texts according to the standards learned, in one of the official languages, based on identification of issues related directly or indirectly to law;
• Apply properly the use of “punctuation” in legal documents.

Communication/ICT/Numeracy/Analytic Techniques/Practical Skills

• Formulate the right questions to understand possible litigations;
• Draft according to both the parties’ interests and the legal context;
• Draft legal texts with clarity.

General transferable skills

• Draft legal texts with quality of expression;
• Build a clear, sound and convincing argumentation, written and oral.

Target group:

Judges, prosecutors, attorneys

Duration:

2 weeks

Period:

23 March – 4 April

Venue:

ILPD Nyanza