--- name: draft-uk-agents title: /legal-clinic-uk:draft description: First draft of a common UK clinic document — practice-area templates (ET1 claim narratives, housing possession defences, protective injunction applications, demand letters, asylum statements of evidence), jurisdiction-aware formatting for England & Wales / Scotland / Northern Ireland, explicitly a starting point requiring student analysis and supervising solicitor/barrister review. Use when a student needs a first draft of a claim, defence, letter, petition, statement, or other clinic document. author: uk-agents author_url: https://github.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/tree/main/legal-clinic-uk/skills/draft license: Apache-2.0 version: 0.1.0 execution_mode: open jurisdiction: gb practice: data-protection language: en --- # /legal-clinic-uk:draft 1. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/CLAUDE.md` → practice-area templates, jurisdiction (E&W / Scotland / NI), local rules, supervision style. 2. Use the workflow below. 3. Match doc type to template. Gather facts from case notes — flag missing, never guess. 4. Apply jurisdiction formatting per CPR, tribunal rules, or Scottish / NI procedure. Draft with `[FACT NEEDED]`, `[VERIFY]`, `[UNCERTAIN]` flags inline. 5. Output with prominent AI-assisted label, student review checklist, supervision routing. ``` /legal-clinic-uk:draft possession-defence ``` ``` /legal-clinic-uk:draft et1-narrative ``` ``` /legal-clinic-uk:draft asylum-statement ``` --- # Draft: First-Draft Document Generation ## Purpose Students spend enormous time on first drafts of documents where the educational value is in the analysis and strategy, not in formatting a claim form or writing the correct tribunal header. This skill produces the first draft from case notes and practice-area templates so the student's time goes to the thinking. **Every draft is explicitly a starting point.** Not final work product. The student analyses, revises, and the supervising solicitor or barrister reviews before anything goes anywhere. ## Load context `~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/CLAUDE.md` → practice areas, practice-area templates, jurisdiction (E&W / Scotland / NI and specific court/tribunal), supervision style. Case notes or intake summary for the facts. ## Pedagogy check Read the supervisor guide for this practice area at `~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/guides/.md`. Check the `pedagogy_posture` setting: - **`guide` (default):** Produce the structure and the checklist. Ask the student to draft each section. Give feedback on their draft (register, reading level, required elements, what they missed). Offer to fill a section only when the student has tried once. - **`assist`:** Produce the work product. Flag items for student review. The student edits and learns by reviewing. - **`teach`:** Don't produce the work product. Ask the student to draft it. Give feedback. Ask leading questions when they're stuck. Only show a model paragraph after two attempts. If no guide exists, use `guide`. Whatever the posture, the output always includes: "**Pedagogy mode: [assist/guide/teach]** — set by your supervisor's guide." **Jurisdiction assumption.** The draft assumes the jurisdiction, court, and local rules set in CLAUDE.md. Procedure, form formats, and substantive rules vary materially between E&W, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and between different courts and tribunals within each jurisdiction. If the matter is in a different court, tribunal, or jurisdiction, confirm with your supervisor before relying on any format, deadline, or argument in the draft. ## Workflow ### Step 1: Which document? Match the request to the clinic's template set. Common set by practice area: | Practice area | Documents | |---|---| | **Housing (E&W)** | Possession defence (Section 21 / Section 8), disrepair claim / counterclaim, deposit protection letter (Housing Act 2004), demand letter, housing possession court application | | **Employment (E&W)** | ET1 claim narrative (unfair dismissal, discrimination, redundancy, wages), ET3 response narrative, grievance letter, appeal against dismissal letter, subject access request | | **Immigration / Asylum** | Statement of evidence / personal statement for asylum claim, representations to the Home Office, First-tier Tribunal (IAC) appeal skeleton argument, subject access request to UKVI, GDPR subject access request | | **Family (E&W)** | Non-molestation order application, occupation order application (FL401), child arrangements statement (C100), financial statement (Form E), position statement for hearing | | **Consumer / Debt (E&W)** | Section 77/78 request (Consumer Credit Act 1974), FCA complaint letter, response to county court claim, set-aside of default judgment application, response to statutory demand | | **Benefits** | Mandatory reconsideration request, First-tier Tribunal (SSCS) appeal grounds, DWP correspondence | | **General** | Letter before action, subject access request, formal complaint to regulator | If the requested document isn't in the template set: "The clinic's templates don't include [X]. I can attempt a draft from general principles, but flag this heavily — it hasn't been tuned for your practice area or jurisdiction. Ask [Supervisor] if there's an existing template." ### Step 2: Gather the facts Read the intake summary or case notes. For each fact the document needs: do we have it? | Document needs | Have? | Source | |---|---|---| | [fact] | ✓ / ✗ | [intake / client doc / need to get] | Missing required facts → don't guess. Mark them: `[FACT NEEDED: client's entry date — get from BRP or ask client]`. ### Step 3: Apply jurisdiction Per `~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/CLAUDE.md` jurisdiction: **England & Wales:** - **CPR formatting:** claim form caption, statement of truth format, Part 7 or Part 8 route, Practice Direction requirements - **Employment Tribunal:** ET1 / ET3 format per Employment Tribunal (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013 (Schedule 1); online submission via MyHMCTS - **First-tier Tribunal (Immigration):** Form IAFT-5 / online portal; Practice Directions and Practice Statements for the IAC - **County Court:** Form N1 (claim), N9B (defence), N180 (directions questionnaire) — small claims, fast track, multi-track allocation per CPR Part 26 - If local court rules or practice directions were ingested at cold-start, use them. If not: `[VERIFY FORMAT: rules not loaded — confirm against current court/tribunal practice directions]` **Scotland:** - Sheriff Court: initial writ or summons format; Summary Cause or Simple Procedure as applicable; Sheriff Appeal Court - Employment Tribunal Scotland: same UK-wide ET rules, but ACAS early conciliation still applies - Note: Scots law and Scottish civil procedure differ materially from E&W in housing (private residential tenancy legislation), family (Children (Scotland) Act 1995), and property law **Northern Ireland:** - County Court NI: NI Rules of Court; NI Legal Aid has separate thresholds from Legal Aid England & Wales - Industrial Tribunal / Fair Employment Tribunal for employment matters ### Step 4: Draft Use the practice-area template. Fill what can be filled from facts. Leave placeholders explicit — never fill with plausible-sounding invention. **Everywhere the draft makes a legal assertion:** that assertion is a hypothesis the student verifies, not a conclusion the draft guarantees. Mark accordingly. ### Step 5: Flag uncertainty Three kinds of flags, in-line: - `[FACT NEEDED: ...]` — the document needs a fact the case notes don't have - `[VERIFY: ...]` — a legal or factual assertion that needs checking before this is filed — use OSCOLA-formatted citation starting points where possible - `[UNCERTAIN: ...]` — the skill is genuinely unsure and says so rather than guessing ### Step 6: Supervision routing Filing a document with a court or tribunal is a consequential action. The gate is the supervision workflow in `## Supervision style` in `~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/CLAUDE.md`. Court and tribunal filings always route through the supervising solicitor or barrister before filing, regardless of the supervision-style choice. `[SRA-CODE]` `[BSB-HANDBOOK]` Per `~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/legal-clinic-uk/CLAUDE.md` supervision style: - **Formal queue:** draft goes to queue, student sees "queued for [Supervisor]" - **Configurable flags:** if this document type is a flag trigger (tribunal/court filings usually are), output includes "CHECK WITH [SUPERVISOR] BEFORE FILING" - **Lighter-touch:** standard safeguard label, no additional gate — but court and tribunal filings still go to the supervisor before filing ## Output ```markdown ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ AI-ASSISTED DRAFT — REQUIRES STUDENT ANALYSIS AND SUPERVISING SOLICITOR/BARRISTER REVIEW This is a starting point, not final work product. Students are not solicitors or barristers. Every [VERIFY] and [FACT NEEDED] flag must be resolved before filing. ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ [The document — in the practice-area template format, jurisdiction-aware, with flags inline. OSCOLA-formatted citation starts where applicable.] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ## Student review checklist Before showing this to [Supervisor]: - [ ] Read the whole thing. Does it say what you want it to say? - [ ] Every fact: is it accurate per the client's actual documents, not just the intake notes? - [ ] Every [VERIFY] flag: resolved with research (Westlaw UK / LexisNexis UK / BAILII / legislation.gov.uk) or struck - [ ] Every [FACT NEEDED] flag: filled with verified information or the section removed - [ ] Legal theory: is this the right argument? Are there better ones? (That's your analysis, not the draft's.) - [ ] Jurisdiction: form format, service requirements, court/tribunal rules correct per current practice directions — `[CPR-RULE]` as applicable - [ ] OSCOLA citations checked: every case and statute cited in the draft must be verified before it appears in a filed document - [ ] [Supervision step per CLAUDE.md style] ## What this draft does NOT do - It does not decide strategy. The draft follows the most common approach for this document type — you decide if that's right for this client. - It does not verify its own legal assertions. Every legal conclusion above is a hypothesis until you research it. - It does not file itself. [Supervisor] reviews, you file per clinic procedure. --- **Before this leaves the clinic.** This is a student draft for supervising solicitor/barrister review, not a final letter, filing, or form. Filing it with a court or tribunal, or sending it to a client or opposing party, has legal consequences for the client. A licensed supervising solicitor or barrister reviews, edits, and signs off before it leaves the clinic. Strip the AI-assisted draft header only after that sign-off. Do not file or send this draft without supervisor approval. *SRA Code of Conduct 2019 and BSB Handbook: supervision requirements apply to all work produced by or under the direction of a solicitor or barrister. This draft is designed to be supervised and verified — it is not designed to be trusted without that.* `[SRA-CODE]` `[BSB-HANDBOOK]` ``` ## What this skill does NOT do - **Produce final work product.** First draft only. Student revises, supervisor reviews. - **Guess at missing facts.** Flags them for the student to get. - **Decide the legal theory.** Uses the common approach; the student decides if it's the right one for this case. - **Replace jurisdiction-specific research.** Applies ingested local rules; flags where rules weren't ingested or might have changed. - **File the document.** Drafting and filing are separate steps. The supervisor approves; the student or clinic files per procedure.