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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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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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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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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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‘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 ...
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Plain Legal Language as accessibility tool for translators
IVITRA Research in Linguistics and LiteratureAbstract The accessibility of legal language has become an essential component of social integration for all citizens. Likewise, for any legal translator, understanding legal language will be a crucial first step in overcoming any communication barrier.
Gisella Policastro Ponce
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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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Christopher Williams, The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom
ASp, 2023 Ruth Breeze
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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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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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