PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF DRAFTING

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF DRAFTING

A Webinar was delivered by Mr.S.Siva shanmugam. He is an advocate in the madras high court and he has more than 25yrs of experience in the field of practise.

The Webinar was on Principles and Practises of Drafting.  Mr.S.Siva Shanmugam started the session by explaining what is drafting. Then he went on to explain what is the importance and objects of drafting and why it is necessary to draft the plaint and the written statement in a simple language. Then pleadings was explained by him. There are three pleadings - plaint, written statement, affidavit. Plaint is specified in ORDER VII RULE 1. Then written statement was explained by him which is filed by the defendant in reply to the plaint given by the plaintiff. Then he also dealt with what is affidavit. Then he explained what are the contents of an affidavit. He mainly explained counter affidavit and re-joinder affidavit. In an affidavit only the facts must be mentioned and not the inferences. Then speaker clearly specified what is a pleading and what are the contents of pleadings. He also dealt with facta probanda and facta probantia. At the end he summed up the whole topic by explaining the important terms.

The webinar was co-ordinated by Mrs. Asha Sundaram(Principal)(faculty co-ordinator) and Sri Jayashree.G, Vth Year, Reg No: 131502029, BBA.LLB(HONS)(Student Co-ordinator).

The number of participants in the webinar was 30.