Skills of legal technique as the basis of a lawyer’s professional competency

The article regards the imperatives of mandatory legal techniques skill acquisition by professional lawyers. The skills are essential in drafting and revisions of legal acts, in particular while working with various structural elements of the latter, as they allow to ascertain defects or their absence in the legal regulation. A thorough analysis is made of the situation with the legislation currently in effect in terms of its consistency with the legal technique requirements: some of the legal acts do contain a high margin of legal technique errors. Proper knowledge of legal technique by people involved in law-making process allows to dramatically improve the regulatory enforcement practices as it helps avoid collisions due to lapses in formal logic or non-observance of requirements for the structural order of regulatory material. Specific examples are adduced to this effect to demonstrate potential adverse consequences that may follow if fundamental prerequisites for drafting and wording of regulatory instruments are ignored. Recommendations are given that would help avoid the defects while drafting legal acts.