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The CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture Podcast

'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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Summary

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. On 6th November 2009, Eleanor Sharpson QC, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities delivered the annual CELS (Centre for European Legal Studies) Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture for 2009 entitled "Addressing Linguistic Transparency in the ECJ". More information about this lecture is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

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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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