Drafting a standard sale or lease contract is routine work for most lawyers, but administrative contracts and banking agreements demand a different level of skill entirely — one that goes beyond tuning wording and checking phrases to classifying and ordering provisions so the contract holds up legally. The Drafting Administrative and Banking Contracts: Legal Methods and Controls training course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built for legal professionals who need exactly that level of skill.

Participants learn legal drafting as the practice of reviewing a contract's terms and governing provisions in line with the law, not just polishing language. Since law itself is the set of rules that regulate behavior and interests within any legal community, and violating it exposes a party to specific sanctions, the course grounds every drafting technique in the legal reasoning behind it.

• Managers of companies and government departments' legal affairs sections.
• Personnel responsible for signing contracts within companies.
• Employees working in legal studies departments.
• Law students and graduates from all universities.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Determine contract specifications correctly and accurately throughout the procurement cycle.
• Assess the legal and strategic importance of contract specifications in the tendering process.
• Identify doubtful, weak or deficiently formed descriptive specifications.
• Distinguish between functional, detailed and performance specifications and their related risks.
• Adjust contract language and punctuation to shift the legal meaning of a clause where needed.

Module 1: Contracts Beyond the Basics

• Contracts: definition, major concepts and their importance.
• Integrity conditions of contracts.
• Understanding the role of technical proposals in evaluating tenders.

Module 2: Preparing and Analyzing Contract Specifications

• Methods to prepare and analyze contract specifications and procurement processes.
• The legal importance of contractual specifications and their relation to the "invitation to tender" process.
• Adopting the proper international standards or enterprise criteria where necessary.

Module 3: Spotting Weak and Deficient Specifications

• Defining doubtful and weak descriptive specifications.
• Defining deficiently formed or inaccurately defined descriptive specifications.
• Differences between functional, detailed and performance specifications and their related risks.

Module 4: Language and Legal Meaning in Contracts

• The impact of language on the meaning of contractual articles and legal conditions.
• Changing contract language and punctuation to shift the meaning of an article or clause.

Module 5: Certification and Delivery

• The course is delivered in group, individual, practical and classroom formats, at a place and time suited to participants.
• Participants receive a certificate from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy upon completion.