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Published in The Clarity Journal 54 – 2005 Introduction As part of the conference on “Clarity and Obscurity in Legal Language” in Boulogne, we organized two panels of expert drafters — two master classes. We thought it would be interesting and instructive to see how different experts approached the same drafting assignment. In this issue, […]

In this issue : Thefounding of Clarity Master Class No. 2, Boulogne conference : Drafting fromscratch—three versions NoiseBill instructions and comments TroublesomeNoiseDisclosure Act Noise Act 2005 Comments on the draft Bills Master Class No. 2, Boulogne conference: Revisory drafting—three revisions The revision that emerged from the project to “restyle” the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil […]

In this issue : How the European Commission drafts legislation in 20 languages The European Central Bank’s approach to drafting legislation in 20 languages The effect of poorly written legislation in a bilingual legal system Producing multilingual legislation in Switzerland Linguistic oddities in European Union legislation: don’t shoot the translator Just fix the English plain […]

In this issue : Plain English and New Zealand statutes Imperatives in drafting legislation: a brief New Zealand perspective Plain language in New Zealand: the drafting of legislation Writing decisions in the New Zealand Disputes Tribunal The power of language—the lawyer’s dilemma Rewriting the Income Tax Act Decisions that convince Plain language and law graduates […]