Daphne Perry

Daphne Perry practised for 12 years as a barrister specialising in general commercial litigation until 1997, when Chambers & Partners ranked her in the top 11 juniors for commercial work in London. She then supported litigators at Denton Wilde Sapte for another 12 years with training, current awareness, know-how and precedents. Experienced in plain language legal draft ing and editing, she is quoted in the Law Society’s textbook “Clarity for Lawyers” and is a committee member of Clarity, the international association for plain language in the law. As Denton Wilde Sapte’s plain language co-ordinator, for 3 years she supported their plain language service, liaising with other lawyers across the fi rm and with non-lawyers in training, business development and IT.