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Articles on plain language drafting
Links improved 16 March 2008

Submitting Articles
Most of the articles below were written by Mark Adler because he (I) prepared this website but other members are invited to submit their own pieces for posting on this site. I hope mine will in time be swamped by other contributions.

Please send them in Word or pdf to Mark Adler.

Articles
Author Article Format Previously published
Mark Adler Alphabet Soup HTML The Law Society's Gazette, November 1993
Bamboozling the Public pdf New Law Journal, 26 July 1991
Tried and tested: the myth behind the cliche pdf Clarity 34, January 1996
Drafting snippets pdf Clarity 34, January 1996
Better drafting (a will extract) pdf Clarity 36, August 1996
Better drafting (a court order) pdf Clarity 40, August 1997
Better drafting (a statement of claim) pdf Clarity 41, April 1998
Eggbound HTML Clarity 41, April 1998
Christopher Balmford Getting the structure right: process, paradigm, and persistence
Part 1
Part 2
pdf Clarity 42, September 1998
Clarity 43, May 1999
Joseph Kimble How to write an impeachment order pdf Court Review and
Lifting the Fog of Legalese
H.D. Rao Lawyers, write plainly, please pdf
Uriel Wittenburg Mathematical notation for law representation HTML