JP Boyd on Family Law Editorial Manifesto
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An editorial manifesto for a new public legal education resource[edit]
By John-Paul Boyd, April 2013[edit]
When Courthouse Libraries and I first started talking about the wiki project, there were some core values that I wanted the wiki to maintain. I’d never thought about these things before, but when we started talking about how the wiki would look and be run, I realized that there were in fact certain qualities of my website that I wanted to preserve. From this came a set of guiding principles for the editorial tone of what is now called JP Boyd on Family Law. My hope is that this resource will continue to be:
- Free
The information should be available for free, to anyone, without restriction and without expectation of reward. - Plain language
Information should be as accessible as possible and couched in colloquial language to the extent possible, without being inaccurate. It should avoid lawyer’s jargon to the extent possible, and may use humour, when humour is appropriate and relatively inoffensive.