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LEGAL COMMUNICATION AND THE IDEA OF PLAIN LANGUAGE: PASSIBILITIES AND LIMITATION [PDF]
Journal of International Legal Communication, 2023 In today’s times, there is increasing attention paid to the recipients of legal texts and legal documents which can be very complex and incomprehensible to laypeople.
Eliza Kmiecicka +2 more
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‘Plain’ legal language by courts: mere clarity, an expression of civic friendship or a masquerade of violence? [PDF]
Theory and Practice of Legislation, 2022 In the Netherlands over the last decade, a range of initiatives have been launched by individual courts, mostly on their own initiative, to make court rulings more comprehensible to average citizens. At the outset, at least from the ‘internal point of view’ of legal practitioners, it might seem striking that these initiatives predominantly address the ...
Iris van Domselaar
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Plain English in Legal Language: A Comparative Study of Two UK Acts of Parliament [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2015 The history of England has left its mark on legal English, a language for specific purposes well known for its complexity and conservatism throughout the world, thanks to the widespread reach of the British Empire. According to many scholars, today legal
Riera, Catalina
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On the Need for Plain Legal Language. The Modernization of Spanish Legal Language
De Jure, 2021 The language of law is characterized by some features and peculiarities that make it difficult to understand for non-specialists in the field. The present article focuses on the need for plain legal language in order to guarantee observance of general principles of law, such as equality before the law and legal certainty.
Radomira Videva
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A simplification of the Consumer Rights Act. Plain legal language and legal language
Oblicza Komunikacji, 2021 The article examines the idea of plain legal language as a standard in creating comprehensible and effective communication in legislative acts. It features plain legal language techniques and tools used to tackle the visual and linguistic layer of legal texts.
N. Zych
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Is Plain Legal Language Easy to Translate?
Pázmány Law Review, 2023 This article examines two machine translations of the same English contract (contract of supply) made using DeepL Pro in March 2022 and March 2023. The contract was used in my practice as a legal translator trainer. It proved easy to understand but difficult to translate into Polish, where plain legal language is much less developed than in English ...
Anna Setkowicz-Ryszka
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Changing with the Times: The Evolution of Plain Language in the Legal Sphere [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2015 As is well known, the Plain language movement has been influential in a number of areas of public life over the last few decades. Within the legal sphere it has raised general awareness concerning the need to make legal matters and legal documents more ...
Williams, Christopher
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Plain legal language and the basic concepts of the philosophy of law
Oblicza Komunikacji, 2021 The aim of the presented article is to demonstrate the possibility of implementing the principles of the Wrocław effective communication model in research conducted by theorists and philosophers of law as well as linguists. The author reflects on the difficulty of comprehending legal language and creating texts of normative acts in an uncomplicated ...
Jagoda Skwarek
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Christopher Williams, The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom
ASp, 2023 Ruth Breeze
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Legal Communication. The Sociolinguistic Value of Plain Language Rules
Fachsprache, 2023 Legal, legislative and official texts are specific types of oral and written documents. Often, the vocabulary and unnatural grammar structures they contain makes it difficult to understand them. This particularly affects the quality of communication involving non-professional discourse participants.
Joanna Kowalczyk
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