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LanguagesThe popularisation of legal knowledge is a critical issue for equal access to law and justice. Legal discourse has been justly criticised for its obscure terminology and convoluted phrasing, which notably led to the Plain Language Movement in English ...
Manon Bouyé, Christopher Gledhill
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PARAPHRASES OF LEGAL TERMINOLOGY BASED ON LAY PERCEPTIONS
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2015 This paper discusses the issue of plain legal language in Japan. First, several legal language battles between legal and lay people are shown, followed by a paraphrase work on civil legal terms based on a research titled ‘A Study on Paraphrase of Civil ...
Mami Hiraike OKAWARA
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The Features of Legal Language in British Legislation: a Diachronic Perspective
Fachsprache, 2022 The aim of this paper was to explore diachronically the features of legal language in British legislation over 200 years to find out whether the features identified by Crystal and Davy in their seminal work are still present in the current British ...
Eva Dvořáková
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La complejidad de la escritura en el contexto judicial: hipótesis y consecuencias
Revista Vasca de Gestión de Personas y Organizaciones PúblicasComplexity is a distinctive feature of writing within judicial context. More particularly, convoluted syntax of judgments and rulings, with an excessive use of embedded clauses, has been identified as one of the main factors that hinder their ...
Claudia Poblete Olmedo +2 more
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Open Source Hardware and Healthcare Collaborative Platforms: 'Common Legal Challenges'
Journal of Open Hardware, 2020 Open collaborative platforms to share open source hardware project designs are a growing paradigm. In the healthcare sector, platforms – such as Careables.org, Patient Innovation, Makers Making Change – are becoming a popular means to share knowledge and
Elisabetta Biasin, Erik Kamenjašević
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Mind the Gap! Translation of Foreign Law Is Not What You Think
Revista de Investigações Constitucionais, 2021 While much legal research involves foreign law and much of foreign law exists in a foreign language, the issue of translation has attracted limited theoretical attention only.
Pierre Legrand
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Journal of Law and Sustainable DevelopmentObjective: This article discusses the plain language intervention to enhance public understanding of legal language, particularly regarding the controversial provisions of the Job Creation Law.
Marlia +7 more
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PLAIN OR ARCHAIC: THE NEW CZECH CIVIL CODE GOING AGAINST THE FLOW
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2012 The article presents the discussion on the wording of the new Civil Code of the Czech Republic which becomes effective on January 1, 2014. Some critics claim that the Code contains many newly coined or re-introduced terms which are unknown to the general
Michal KUBÁNEK, Ondřej KLABAL
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ReflectionsThis study was designed to investigate the translation of laws from Thai into English with a focus on the use of modal ‘shall’ in the translations. As the trend of plain legal English continues to rise in the contemporary legal environment, some legal ...
Wiriya Inphen
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Reproductive Health, 2021 Plain language summary Although abortion was legalized in South Africa in 1996, barriers to safe, legal abortion services remain, and women continue to seek abortions outside of the formal healthcare sector.
Jane Harries +3 more
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