Posted on 19/04/04
Judges to use plain English
It may have taken a couple of hundred years, but the judiciary has come up with a new language: plain English.A volume of model jury instructions for judges, released by the Canadian Judicial Council, aims to end the judiciary's long-standing reputation for confusing jurors with multiple layers of legal gobbledygook.
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