ABSTRACT
This chapter is an introduction to the construction of legal argument. The ability to engage in competent argument is seen as an essential skill in most areas of life. All academic disciplines place value on the competent construction of argument, and law is no exception. Law students tend to be taught law through a method that emphasises law cases and relies heavily on the development of argumentative strategies to apply the law and facts to simulated legal problems. Lawyers as professionals spend much of their time engaged in aspects of problem solving for clients which has, as a corollary, the ability to use excellent argumentative skills on behalf of their client.
