For law students and other legal writers in the U.K.

Bruce Grant of the Newcastle Law School presents this guide to legal writing. In the synopsis, Mr. Grant explains why law students at Newcastle need to know this stuff:

This document has been approved by the Board of Studies of Law in an attempt to set a standard for acceptable legal writing. If you follow its advice, you cannot be open to criticism. If you do not, you may be criticised, and you may have marks deducted.

The document contains advice about good style for legal writing, defines an acceptable house style for the use of footnotes, and outlines rules for the citation of primary and secondary legal sources.

(Hat tip to Parikshit (pronounced Purrikhshith).