Drafting

The appearance of this series of texts on legal skills reflects the shift in emphasis in legal education away from a focus on teaching legal information and towards the teaching and learning of taskrelated and problem solving skills. Legal education in the UK has undergone significant changes over the past 15 years as a result of growing concern, expressed for the most part by the profession, over its adequacy to prepare students for the practice of law. At the same time, many legal educators have voiced fears that concentrating on drilling students in substantive law promotes neither the agility of mind nor the development of judgment skills which provide the basis for continued learning.