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Legal Aid decision letters and plain language: advice for the vulnerable

2014
This paper responds to research on the production of decision letters sent to citizens who have applied for legal aid to Legal Aid Queensland (LAQ), the Queensland organization funded by the Federal government of Australia and the state of Queensland to help socially and financially disadvantaged people.
Proellocks, Dorothy, Petelin, Roslyn
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Navigating complexity in plain English: A longitudinal analysis of syntactic and lexical complexity development in L2 legal writing

Journal of Second Language Writing, 2023
Yiran Xu, J Elliott Casal
exaly  

Plain writing in the legal field: An approach from the discourse of specialists

Discourse Studies, 2020
Paulina Meza, Felipe Gonzalez-Catalan, Carmen López-Ferrero   +2 more
exaly  

Plain Language: Improving Legal Communication

European Journal of Law Reform, 2014
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Plain Legal Language through Translation: A Comparison of Swiss, EU and Italian Legislative Texts

2022
Drafting clear and accessible legislation has become a major concern in different monolingual and multilingual institutional settings. In multilin-gual contexts, where different language versions of official publications are developed through translation, legislation tends to be more accessible, as noticed by linguists, as well as translation and legal
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A history of plain language in the legal sphere in the United Kingdom

2022
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Plain English and legal writing: Comparing expert and novice writers

English for Specific Purposes, 2014
Alissa J Hartig, Xiaofei Lu
exaly  

Plain language and assessment of plain language

International Journal of Private Law, 2011
Philip N Stoop
exaly  

THE LANGUAGE OF LEGAL RULES SOME NOTES ABOUT PLAIN-MEANING IN LAW

2013
This essay examines the common opinion that there is a close relationship between the indeterminacy of legal language and hard cases. The analysis begins with Frederick Schauer’s conception of plain meaning in law in order to argue that the co-existence of hard and easy cases in a legal system is independent of the written or unwritten nature of the ...
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The Social Justice Impact of Plain Language: A Critical Approach to Plain-Language Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2017
Natasha N Jones, Miriam F Williams
exaly