LETS is a tool to empower Legal English teachers. It does this in basically two ways:
1. It provides help in understanding the law through clear and concise summaries of areas of the law which appear in the International Legal English course book and the ILEC examination.
2. It provides additional materials for classroom use to supplement those available in the International Legal English course book, the International Legal English teacher's book and the ILEC website www.LegalEnglishTest.org.
If you want to know more about a particular area of law, just click on the button for that area. If you want to know how a lawyer in a particular area of law practices, just go to the end of the summary of the law text. If you want sample documents to use in class just view the appendices at the bottom of the summary of law text. There is also a general "practice of law" section to provide teachers with an overview of the tasks carried out by lawyers.
The FAQ section provides answers to the questions our Lawyer-Linguists have answered most often over the years.
TransLegal will add to these resources on a regular basis to empower you to provide quality Legal English instruction. Notably, very shortly we will be adding lesson plans and presentations from some of our senior presenters. So, we would encourage you to keep checking in for new and updated materials.
Legal Notice
LETS is intended for the sole and exclusive purpose of providing Legal English
instruction and is published with the understanding that the publishers and
the authors are not engaged in the provision of legal advice. None of the information
contained in LETS is intended to constitute, nor does it constitute, legal
advice. Consequently, the contents of LETS should not be regarded as constituting
legal advice or guidance, should not be relied upon for providing legal advice,
guidance or recommendations to any third party, and should not under any circumstances
be used in lieu of the advice of a qualified lawyer.