Mr Richard Bates: Can we cure lawyers of legalese?

In this talk, Mr Bates considers why language often seems so complicated; why legal documents are often so hard to understand; why lawyers love legalese so much; and what lawyers can do to produce legal documents we can all hope to understand. Produced by legal English in Hong Kong, with support from the Hong Kong University Grants Committee. Special thanks to The Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate Law Centre. More videos at legalenglish.hk.