Marcel Berlins
Words From the Bench
Ashes and Sparks: Essays on Law and Justice
By Stephen Sedley
Cambridge University Press 446pp £19.99 order from our bookshop
There is something about the law that renders the vast majority of its practitioners, be they judges or lawyers, incapable of writing about their world in language understandable by those not of the profession. It’s not so much the vocabulary of the law that mystifies, though that is a factor, but a way of employing words and constructing sentences which the lay reader finds somewhere between stilted and impenetrable.
@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
Last Tweets