"Would you say that to you mother-in-law?" Kate Davies, solicitor in the Private Client team at Wedlake Bell, argues for the use of plain English in legal correspondence in her monthly "Last Word" column for the Solicitors Journal, but heralds a note of caution: if you wouldn't say it to your mother-in-law, keep it to yourself.

Kate's column was published on 8 April 2014 in the Solicitor's Journal (www.solicitorsjournal.com):-

"Would you say that to your mother-in-law?"

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