English - 1

Unit I — Prose

Prose 1. The Divisions of the Law 2. Mechanism of Scholarship 3. Methods of Study 4. Case Law Technique 5. Working out Problems 6. Moots and Mock Trials from Learning the Law by Glanville Williams 7. Part-I: Keeping the streams of Justice Clear and Pure from The Due Process of Law by Lord Denning

• Learning the Law: Chapters: 1.The Divisions of the Law
• Case Law Technique
• Games Lawyers need to play — Understanding Moot Problems and Memorials

Unit II — Linguistics

Linguistics 1. Phonetics - Speech Sounds - Vowels, Diphthongs & Consonants Transcription 2. Language Acquisition - Uses and Problems, Language Register, Jargon, Dialectal Variation of Language

Unit III — Logic

Logic General Principles of Logic - Deductive and Inductive Logic,Syllogism, Rules of Syllogism; Proposition, Distribution of Terms and Fallacies.

• Basic features of Inductive and Deductive reasoning and their uses in Courts
• Traditional classification of proposition into categorical and conditional four –fold classification
• Distribution of terms in A, E, I, O propositions
• Syllogism — Rules and Fallacies
• Fallacies — Its kinds — Fallacies

Unit IV — Essays

Essays Essay Writing on topics of Legal Interest

• General English: Essay writing, comprehension, and rules of grammar