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Reviewing Argument Schemes for Legal Arguments of Statutory Interpretation

open access: yesOpinión Jurídica, 2022
The current legal paradigm assumes that legal decisions must be justified. Judges use arguments as tools to accomplish this justification. Thus, this research presents an analysis to explain and illustrate arguments of statutory interpretation, given ...
Eduardo Brandão Nunes
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LEX.CH.IT: A CORPUS FOR MICRO-DIACHRONIC LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATIONS OF SWISS NORMATIVE ACTS IN ITALIAN

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2019
The aim of this paper is to present LEX.CH.IT, a corpus for micro-diachronic linguistic investigations of Swiss normative acts in Italian. Italian has a peculiar position as an official minority translation language within the Swiss institutional system.
Paolo CANAVESE
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PLAIN LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS OF LEGALESE — A CASE STUDY OF WILLS

open access: yesComparative 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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Innovations in science popularization (in on-line legal texts) [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
The article aims at analysis of popularization tactics as means of science popularization. The authors see these tactics as an innovative means of popularization of science and education development in the professional sphere.
Pervukhina Svetlana, Demchenko Valintina
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Plain-Language Approach in Legislative Drafting: A Perspective from Poland

open access: yesComparative 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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¿Qué es una pregunta? Fundamentos pragmalingüísticos para la democratización de los géneros administrativo y judicial || What is a question? Pragmatics basis for the democratization of the administrative and legal genres

open access: yesCuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho, 2016
Resumen: Los documentos jurídicos y administrativos son difíciles de entender. ¿Hay forma de corregirlos? Una de las técnicas principales en aras de la claridad es la de hacer preguntas.
Javier Martínez Villarroya
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The Demand on Plain Legal Language in Public Sector: a Case of Consumer Contracts Providing Public Service

open access: yes, 2014
Plain legal language is one of ways to ensure citizens rights to clear and easy understandable information about legal regulations. It is also a valuable tool providing public services.
Ramunė Miežanskienė   +1 more
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PLAIN-LANGUAGE APPROACH IN LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING: A PERSPECTIVE FROM POLAND

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2019
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.
Natalia ZYCH
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The pursuit of clarity, precision and unambiguity in drafting retrospective legislation [PDF]

open access: yes
This dissertation suggests that clarity, precision and unambiguity are the essential tools for expressing retrospective intent, which is a pre-requisite for quality and validity of retrospective legislation.
Turatsinze, Elias
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Exposing Errors and Removing Errors: Pushing the Boundaries in Legal English

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2017
As is well known, the language of the law tends to be relatively conservative in its style when compared with most other varieties of language. However, in recent decades we have witnessed a minor revolution in the way legal English has developed ...
Christopher Williams
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