Aspects of legislative drafting : some South African realities (or plain language is not always plain sailing)

Bekink, Bernard; Botha, C.J. (Christo)

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dc.contributor.author	Bekink, Bernard
dc.contributor.author	Botha, C.J. (Christo)
dc.date.accessioned	2007-09-03T05:34:03Z
dc.date.available	2007-09-03T05:34:03Z
dc.date.issued	2007-04
dc.description.abstract	It seems to me that a sort of hieratic language has developed by which the priests incant the commandments. I seem to see the ordinary citizen today standing before the law like the laity in a medieval church: at the far end the lights glow, the priestly figures move to and fro, but it is in an unknown tongue that the great mysteries of right and wrong are proclaimed.	en
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Bekink, B & Botha, C 2007, 'Aspects of legislative drafting : some South African realities (or plain language is not always plain sailing)', Statute Law Review, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 34-67. [http://slr.oxfordjournals.org/]	en
dc.identifier.issn	0144-3593
dc.identifier.other	10.1093/slr/hml012
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/3430
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press	en
dc.rights	Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Statute Law Review following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://slr.oxfordjournals.org./cgi/content/abstract/28/1/34.	en
dc.subject	Legal language	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Law -- Language	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Law -- South Africa -- Language	en
dc.title	Aspects of legislative drafting : some South African realities (or plain language is not always plain sailing)	en
dc.type	Postprint Article	en