External Resources

So much has been written for many years about plain legal language all around the world. Here are articles, Web page, books from plain language experts or scholars that may interest you.

• VLAF online legal information guidelines

  Website

• Usability.gov

  Usability.gov

• Government Service Design Manual

  Government Service Design Manual

• Making Regulations Readable

  Office of the Federal Register, US

• Drafting Legal Documents

  Office of the Federal Register, US

• The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing

  https://www.scribes.org/

• Lucid Law

  Martin Cutts, Plain Language Commission

• Clarity for Lawyers

  Mark Adler and Daphne Perry, Law Society, 3rd edn, 2017

• The Winning Brief

  Bryan Garner, Oxford University Press, 3rd edn, 2014

• Drafting Trusts and Will Trusts

  James Kessler QC, Sweet & Maxwell, 12th edn, 2014