Marcel Berlins

Words From the Bench

Ashes and Sparks: Essays on Law and Justice

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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.

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