In this article, first published on the Halsbury’s Law Exchange blog, Matthew Seys-Llewellyn looks at a recent debate over the use of personal pronouns and when a “he” is also a “she” as a matter of law

Until the discovery of telepathy (or perhaps some sort of machine equivalent), we must rely on language as our way of conveying unambiguous meaning to each other. That need is particularly pressing when it comes to the law.