Over the last week I had an opportunity to listen to interviews of former High Court Judge Key Dingake over two private radio stations.
I also had time to read a speech that he gave at the University of Botswana surrounding an issue that we have as a country come to call a Constitutional Review.
Judge Dingake steers clear of jargon. He is not bombast. And he takes non-lawyers by hand, brings them along and assists them to fully understand all the issues he is addressing.
In Botswana that is not only a rarity, coming from a lawyer it is also strange behaviour.
We are used to lawyers that always speak pseudo Latin. We are used to lawyers that are bombast.
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