Readers may have noticed the recent profusion of advertisements in the legal press for the role of Parliamentary draftsperson. Ruthie can understand why lawyers might be reluctant to take up such a post; the requirement for the analytical skills of a rocket scientist combined with the thrill levels of a check out clerk is liable to dissuade.
Instead why not force each area of the profession to give one afternoon a week? Surely there is a vested interest to produce legislation that is clear and pragmatic, and who better to know where the loopholes already exist than the people who work daily with the existing law?
Somehow I think it unlikely that my suggestion will be taken up.
I agree that it is unlikely your suggestion will be taken up, however I fear some lawyers do not come from the same moral stand point as yourself (A good one I assume from your blogging) and would, if forced to draft legislation, be tempted to continue to draft legislation that is confusing and full of obfuscations.
Look what the legislative draftees have done to what was described by its political sponsor as “.. Tax is basically a simple tax.” No prize for guessing who said it about which tax. (A clue - last century)