ELEMENT 1: APPROPRIATE USE OF MEDIA
1. e-mails, letters, memoranda
2. appropriate medium, form and style
3. tailor communication

ELEMENT 2: WRITING STYLE
1. accurate, straightforward and modern language
2. spelling/grammar/syntax/ punctuation
3. relevant information
4. structure and format
5. checked and edited.

ELEMENT 3: CONTENT
1. advances the matter
2. legal and factual issues, costs, benefits and risks
3. clients' objectives and priorities,
4. appropriate records
5. client care matters
6. professional conduct issues
7. future action

Taught within one designated 1 hour whole group session and two x 2 hour workshop sessions. Also taught pervasively throughout the LPC. Additionally, for students following a blended-learning mode of delivery there will be on-line activities.

Assessment by a 1.5 hour written assessment in the context of Wills and Administration of Estates. Assessed on a competent/not yet competent basis.

Lecture and workshop materials, Blackboard and Library resources

Skills manual and on-line resources

None

The Solicitors Regulation Authority demand students have a standard of letter writing appropriate for legal professional. Writing skills are taught throughout the workshops in all subjects and assessed in the context of a real client scenario arising in Wills and Administration of Estates.