A1031672357 - 31901 - 20 - 2024 - Law 314
A1031672357 - 31901 - 20 - 2024 - Law 314
A1031672357 - 31901 - 20 - 2024 - Law 314
Objective: This assignment focuses on honing your legal drafting skills by preparing a Writ
Petition based on a hypothetical legal dispute. You are required to analyze the given problem,
apply relevant legal principles, and draft the documents as if you were representing a party in
court. To enhance students' understanding and skills in legal drafting by preparing a writ
petition on a relevant social issue. This exercise aims to develop the ability to identify social
issues, understand.
Instructions:
1. Name of the Court and Parties: Clearly state the name of the court where the petition is
being filed and the names of all parties involved.
2. Statement of Facts: Provide a concise summary of the facts that form the basis of the
petition.
3. Legal Basis: Outline the legal grounds or basis for the petition, citing relevant laws or
statutes.
4. Request for Relief: Specify the exact relief or action being requested from the court.
5. Signature Section: Include a section for the petitioner’s signature, affirming the truthfulness
of the information provided.
Formatting Guidelines:
a. Use standard legal formatting with appropriate headings and subheadings.
b. Ensure clarity, coherence, and logical flow in your arguments.
c. Stick to word limits, if any, and cite relevant legal provisions where
applicable.
Evaluation Criteria:
Exceptionally
well-structured Well-structured Generally well- Basic structure Poorly structured, Lacks clear
and organized, and organized, structured, but present, but with with significant structure and
Structure and
with clear with minor issues with some issues noticeable issues issues in organization, with
Organization
headings, logical in flow or in organization in organization organization and major coherence
flow, and coherent coherence. and logical flow. and coherence. logical flow. issues.
argumentation.
Uses clear, Uses clear and Basic clarity in
Generally clear Limited clarity, Lacks clarity, with
precise, and formal legal language, but with
language, but with with significant numerous
Language formal legal language, with noticeable
some grammatical grammatical or grammatical or
and Clarity language, with no minor grammatical grammatical or
or typographical typographical typographical
grammatical or or typographical typographical
errors. errors. errors.
typographical errors. errors.
Exhibits high
originality in Shows strong Demonstrates Shows basic
Demonstrates Lacks
drafting, with originality and good originality originality and
limited originality originality and
Originality of creative and well- legal reasoning, and legal legal reasoning,
and legal legal reasoning,
drafting and structured legal with minor areas reasoning, but with several areas
reasoning, with with minimal
Legal reasoning reasoning, for improvement with noticeable for improvement
significant areas creative
providing unique in creativity or areas for in creativity and
for improvement. approaches and
and effective structure. improvement. structure.
poor structure.
solutions.
Provides thorough
and detailed Provides detailed Adequate content, Basic content, Limited content,
Insufficient
content, covering content, covering covering many covering some covering few
Completeness content, with
all necessary most necessary necessary aspects, necessary aspects, necessary aspects,
of content many necessary
aspects of the aspects, with but with notable but with several with significant
aspects omitted.
plaint/petition minor omissions. omissions. omissions. omissions.
comprehensively.
Demonstrates
Demonstrates
comprehensive Shows basic Demonstrates Shows minimal
Shows strong good
knowledge of understanding of limited understanding of
understanding of understanding of
relevant legal relevant legal understanding of relevant legal
Relevant legal relevant legal relevant legal
provisions and provisions and relevant legal provisions and
provisions and provisions and provisions and
cases, with cases, but with provisions and cases, with
cases cases, with minor cases, but with
accurate several cases, with numerous errors
inaccuracies in some notable
application and inaccuracies or significant errors and lack of
application. inaccuracies or
integration into omissions. or omissions. clarity in
omissions.
the plaint/petition. application.