Aspects of legislative drafting : some South African realities (or plain language is not always plain sailing)
| dc.contributor.author | Bekink, Bernard | |
| dc.contributor.author | Botha, C.J. (Christo) | |
| dc.contributor.email | christo.botha2@up.ac.za | en |
| 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 |
| dc.format.extent | 210780 bytes | |
| 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 |