Top of their game podcast with Michael Kirby

For many years, the Hon. Michael Kirby served as one of the Patrons of Clarity International.  This is an international organisation of lawyers designed to improve legal expression in the lawyers’ profession.  For many years Michael Kirby had written about basic rules that could be observed to simplify, clarify and abbreviate legal expression.  The most popular of these was “Ten Commandments for Clarity in Legal Expression”.  In this discussion with Mr Bob Milstein of Melbourne, Michael Kirby has provided a podcast explaining why Clarity is important for lawyers and what can be done to help improve legal expression.  His replacement at Clarity International is the Hon. Justice James Edelman AC, Justice of the High Court of Australia.