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Legal Research and Writing Skills

📘 Legal Research and Writing Skills

This course develops essential skills required for effective legal research, analysis, and professional writing. It is designed for law students and practitioners to improve accuracy, clarity, and argumentation in legal documents.

You will learn how to:

  • 📚 Conduct legal research using statutes, case law, and academic sources
  • ⚖️ Analyze judicial decisions and apply legal principles effectively
  • 📝 Prepare legal memoranda, case briefs, and opinions
  • ✍️ Improve legal writing style, structure, and clarity
  • 🔎 Use online legal databases and reference tools

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Contract Law and Commercial Practice

This course examines how legally binding agreements are formed, enforced, and breached. Students learn about offer and acceptance, consideration, contract terms, and remedies in business and commercial contexts.

Criminal Law and Justice

This course focuses on criminal offenses, legal procedures, and the justice system. It covers key topics such as crime classification, elements of offenses, defenses, and sentencing, helping students understand how criminal responsibility is determined.

Criminal Law and Procedure

Covers the principles of criminal offences, investigation, prosecution, and court procedures. It explains how criminal cases are handled from filing to judgment.

Law of Contract Ceylon

This course covers the formation, performance, and discharge of contracts under the Roman-Dutch law as applied in Sri Lanka, addressing offer, acceptance, consideration, and vitiating factors such as misrepresentation and undue influence. Students will evaluate contractual remedies and standard commercial practices through local case law.

Constitutional Law of Sri Lanka

This course explores the foundational principles of Sri Lanka's constitutional framework, including separation of powers, fundamental rights, and the evolving nature of republicanism and unitary state provisions. Students will analyze landmark Supreme Court determinations on executive power, parliamentary sovereignty, and constitutional remedies.

Law of Delict (Torts) Ceylon

This course examines the principles of civil wrongs under Sri Lankan law, including negligence, defamation, nuisance, and trespass, with reference to both Roman-Dutch and English common law traditions. Students will assess liability, defenses, and remedies through local and persuasive precedent.