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Aspects of Legislative Drafting: Some South African Realities (or Plain Language Is Not Always Plain Sailing)

Authors:	Bekink, Bernard Botha, Christo

Affiliation:	Senior lecturer of Public Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Dr Bekink is also a member of the International Bar Association Professor of Public Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Professor Botha is also the course leader for the University of Pretoria Certificate in Legislative Drafting and advocate of the High Court of South Africa

Abstract:	It seems to me that a sort of hieratic language has developedby which the priests incant the commandments. I seem to seethe ordinary citizen today standing before the law like thelaity in a medieval church: at the far end the lights glow,the priestly figures move to and fro, but it is in an unknowntongue that the great mysteries of right and wrong are proclaimed.¹

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