Template:Without limitation and ejusdem generis: Difference between revisions

:''“including '''([[without limitation]] or application of the [[ejusdem generis]] rule)''' data (including risk and historic, know-how, formulae, processes, designs, personnel and operational information, photographs, drawings, specifications, computer code, persona [[data]], portfolio data and any other information or data relating to the business, staff, operations or trading strategies of the company.”''

This, of all places, in a ''[[confidentiality agreement]]''. This is [[legal eagle]]ry taken to an extraordinary, self-contradictory lengths. This is the [[legal eagle]] as [[The farmer and the sheep|farmer, cack-handedly counting her sheep]]. For what is the purpose of a laundry list of specifics in the first place, if not to somehow craft, contextualise or otherwise put some meaningful boundaries on a general expression which might otherwise have impossibly wide application? If you just want to capture all information, just ''say'' “all information”, and don’t trouble your reader with a laundry list which is patently redundant ''or'' the [[ejusdem generis]] carve-out.