Published in The Clarity Journal 82 - 2020.
Introduction
Persons under arrest receive a Letter of Rights, which explains them what are their rights : right to keep silent, right to get a lawy...
Published in the Clarity Journal 81 - 2020
Introduction
Lili Krámer, Zsófia Moldova, and Vera Gergely
The Letter of Rights is a text that informs suspects of their fundamental rights (such...
Published in The Clarity Journal 82 - 2020.
Background
Northwest Justice Project (NJP) and the Superior Court of Washington have long relied on plain language and readable design to support p...
Published in The Clarity Journal 81 - 2020.
Introduction
This article discusses how plain language in Australian family law combined with a clear process makes justice more accessible. Both s...
Published in The Clarity Journal 81 - 2020.
The right to a trial by jury is one of the fundamental elements of the American system of justice. Jurors are asked to engage in a complicated and dif...
Published in The Clarity Journal 80 - 2019.
Every reader of this journal will be convinced that plain language revisions improve reading success. But in this article, I will argue that this impr...
Published in The Clarity Journal 62 - November 2009
Shortly after the Second World War, the British Treasury invited Ernest Gowers to write a train- ing pamphlet for the civil service on the use...
Published in The Clarity Journal 80 - 2019.
Design has been talked about much since the turn of the new millennium. Its concepts, methods, and processes are now found in all spheres of human act...
Published in The Clarity Journal 79 - 2018
The Plain Language Working Group is born – and gets to work
The journey towards this options paper began at the 2007 PLAIN conference in Amsterdam. ...
Published in The Clarity Journal 79 - 2018
The Standards Committee of the International Plain Language Federation is working to develop an international standard for plain language through the I...