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Articles on plain language drafting
Last updated 28 July 2009

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If you would like to submit an article for publication here, please send it in Word or pdf to Mark Adler.

Articles
Author Article Format Previously published
Christopher Balmford Getting the structure right: process, paradigm, and persistence
Part 1
Part 2
pdf Clarity 42, September 1998
Clarity 43, May 1999
Time to create the write stuff
How clear legal documents would have prevented the world financial crisis

Added 18.2.09
Link The Age, 18 February 2009
Plain Language: a part of your brand
Added 19.2.09
rtf
Emilia Boleszczuk Comparative analysis of legalese and plain English: a case study of wills
Added 27.7.09 (& link corrected 28.7)
pdfBA thesis: University of Gdansk, Faculty of Languages
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
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