Course description
Judicial Reasoning
Upcoming start dates
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Training content
Week 1: Judicial Reasoning
- Explore ‘What’ the ‘Law’ should mean to you
- Legal, moral and judicial facets explained
- Why the nature of law evolves, its significance to society, and how big data drivers will drive future law-making
- Legislative interpretation
- Applied legislation for interpretation – Persons of legislative interpretations (PLIs)
- Techniques for developing and evidencing a reasoned argument • Rebuttable v. non-rebuttable presumptions
- Judicial precedent v. freedom to exercise judicial discretion: scoping and limitations
- The base for logical reasoning
- The aspects of judicial reasoning
- The relationships and roles of parliaments and courts
- Reasoning techniques to reach decisions
- The ‘neighbour’ principle as outlined by Lord Atkin
- Internal and external justification of conclusions of law – dictum justifications
- Use v. misuse of deduction
- Use v. misuse of ‘coherence-based’ arguments
- Consequential arguments
- Rhetorical analysis of legal reasoning – verbal and writing skills
- The role of human rights and the reason for their emergence
- The relevance of human rights in judicial reasoning and decision-making
- Understanding the framework for human rights in different jurisdictions
- Legal skills, problem-solving, and good writing skills
- Anatomy of the complexities in law and justice – similarities and differences
- The role of the successful judge in modern society
Costs
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Certification / Credits
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Enhance the ability to engage ‘critically’ and logically in judicial reasoning
- Develop the skills to articulate sound legal arguments
- Strengthen the understanding of the moral, social and political aspects of legal reasoning
- Understand the relationship between statutes and cases
- Appreciate the role of Judges and Human Rights
- In-depth understanding of the role of rights in administrative, civil and criminal justice processes
- Understand the substantive role and constitutional position of judges
- Master judicial approaches to statutory interpretation and the influence of international instruments on those approaches
- Gain an in-depth appreciation of the fundamental elements of the rule of law, and the significance of fairness and justice in social and legal systems
- Identify rapidly key issues in cases and be able to summarise key points succinctly, accurately and with high impact
- Strengthen legal research skills using primary and secondary sources
- Kolb’s Adult Learning Styles Model
- Respond coherently to challenging questions about the law by the use of legal referencing
Why choose LCT International?
We have trained over 2,500 delegates from almost 600 client organisations
Complimentary Heathrow transfer (one-way)
Endorsed by various organisational and subject specific accrediting bodies
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