For many years Michael Kirby has been involved in Clarity International an international body established to encourage plain language in the legal profession.
Michael Kirby has suggested 10 rules (like the 10 Commandments) that lawyers can follow in order to improve the clarity of their expression of legal problems and legal solutions.
Interestingly, the first such rule is to use more full stops ( or as the Americans say ‘periods’). Legal propositions expressed in short sentences tend to be clearer, sharper and more intelligible.
In this pod cast, Bob Millstein of Melbourne takes Michael Kirby beyond the 10 Commandments of good and clear legal expression into other rules that can be simply followed in order to improve the prose of every lawyer’.
