Lawyers are becoming partial to business-speak – a nonsense language of jargon that many see as a way to shut out those who don’t understand it. JDG Chambers tells it like it is

An Italian financial reporter comes to work in London. She sends an email in English to the head of communications at a Taiwanese company for an article she is writing on the use of social media at multinational corporations. The email reply from Taiwan is short and to the point: “I do not have the bandwidth to use Facebook.”