Miscellaneous

In this item, Australian High Court Judge Michael Kirby shares the secret of his success with some university students:

?I know the real reason you love me,? he said, before pausing for effect.

?Headings. Headings. Sub-headings. Sub-sub-headings. Indent dot points. That?s the real reason.?

The High Court judge had told the enthralled audience he was ?in the business of communication of ideas? ....

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.... ?You don?t communicate ideas if you write High Court judgments in the way that the High Court justices did in my time. Just think of my time in law school. I had to sit there reading page after page without a single paragraph.



?So that's what you get from me. I?m the sort of CCH of legal publishing. I believe in making it easy. You can skip all the stuff you don?t want to read and go straight to the point where the sub-sub-sub heading tells you what the gist of the matter is.?

Hat tip to Slaw.