A Manual of Style For the Drafting of Contracts
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A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is such a beautifully ironic title — rather like writing How to be Cool in Comic Sans — that we can’t resist wondering how much more clumsy its title might have been had Ken Adams had the chutzpah — or the basic sense of irony that he seems to lack — to really push the boat out. Mr Adams doesn’t strike us as the type of guy you’d want to be stuck next to at the ABA annual dinner, but he ploughs a lonely furrow fighting the good fight for clear drafting and is surrounded on all sides by Americans, whose intellectual energies seem to be largely expended in making simple ideas complicated, and thus we are grateful to him for it and raise our glass.