Addressing Linguistic Transparency in the ECJ: The 2009 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
The CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture Podcast
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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🗓️ 9 November 2009
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | That very courteous introduction, alas, how I wish you, true, that I know how to be in |
| 0:08.5 | northern leadership, three places at the same time, I had since been limited to one, and then |
| 0:13.9 | the porridge is to be up to two places because I went to slightly late. |
| 0:17.6 | I also invite, before I start, to thank you for those kind words and true words about |
| 0:24.7 | Lord Brighensi Stewart and to have on my own behalf I had pleasure of the circuit |
| 0:31.8 | as a legal sector as a referendum there in what was to be the last year of his presidency, as I |
| 0:39.6 | joined subordinate slaying, but general school, so let's see them, was in 1987. |
| 0:47.5 | And Lord Burkentius Stewart was not only courteous to other members of court, as he was unfailingly nice to the rather |
| 0:57.0 | more limited group of Nicholsec, Prism and about two hundred of the time called Sala. |
| 1:05.0 | And he was very pleasant to us, and very courteous, and not to which only by me say so, not presidential |
| 1:12.6 | in the way that subsequent presidents in Mauritius and such a lot of |
| 1:18.6 | and it's very much appreciated so thank you those very nice words about you and I should like to |
| 1:24.4 | assesship and so much. |
| 1:37.3 | Now, it's obviously importance in the union that it's meant to be up and by the rule of law to have clear lethal language. |
| 1:41.3 | White vizance is almost truessence to say that citizen has been from standalone, |
| 1:47.1 | which is head downways, and likewise, it is almost self-evident to say that in a judicial |
| 1:55.9 | system hands-down rulings that are needlessly obscure, perhaps even belfic, its credibility to all quite rightly be lenient. |
| 2:07.6 | So far, so good, so obviously. |
| 2:12.6 | But what do we actually mean when we speak clear legal language and credibility of the legal system |
| 2:22.0 | or of the EU judicial system? |
| 2:25.1 | Who is generating the legal language that needs to be accepted to court? |
| 2:31.6 | Justice of the European Communities, I can call it short ad BECJ, that's |
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