Aspects of legislative drafting : some South African realities (or plain language is not always plain sailing)
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Bekink, Bernard
Botha, C.J. (Christo)
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Oxford University Press
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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.
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Sustainable Development Goals
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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/]