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Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language

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This book reveals how and why traditional legal language has developed some of the peculiar characteristics that sometimes make legal documents inaccessible to users. It examines recent reforms in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and North America, and provides a step-by-step guide to drafting in a modern style. Readers of the book will be able to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful to clients and colleagues.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 2001

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Peter Butt

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