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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 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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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-Language Approach in Legislative Drafting: A Perspective from Poland [PDF]
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2018 The purpose of this research is to explore plain-language postulates reflecting on legal drafting assumptions since legal acts should be precise, clear and express with no doubts the intention of the legislator.
Zych Natalia
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PLAIN LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS OF LEGALESE — A CASE STUDY OF WILLS [PDF]
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017 Legal English is well-known for its complexity which makes it incomprehensible for lay readers. The answer to the problem of legalese is the plain English movement, aiming at simplification of the language of documents.
Emilia BOLESZCZUK
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THE PLAIN LANGUAGE MOVEMENT AND MODERN LEGAL DRAFTING
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2016 This paper aims to answer the question whether modern legal drafting is implementing the revolutionary changes argued for by the plain language movement and whether legal texts are made more user-friendly, particularly to their non-professional ...
Anna SOBOTA
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Skilur almenningur íslenskt lagamál?
Orð og Tunga, 2022 Text comprehension of Icelandic legislative texts was studied qualitatively by interviewing 46 Icelandic speakers individually. The participants read parts of the Icelandic Inheritance Act no. 8/1962 and of the Icelandic Children’s Act no.
Ari Páll Kristinsson +3 more
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University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2023 The article is written against the backdrop of the plain language movement that made its way to the legal Language almost in the 1970s. Almost all countries work differently to make legal documents readable and understandable for laypersons.
Amna Anwar, Hazrat Umar
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An appraisal of plain language in the South African banking sector
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2016 The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA) came into full force in April 2011. An important corollary of this Act, and the National Credit Act 34 of 2005, is the obligation that consumer documents must be in plain language.
Cornelius, Eleanor
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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.
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