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DESIGN. LITERACY. PRACTICE. Access for All: Plain Language is a Civil Right, is a virtual conference dedicated to using plain language to break down barriers in society. Through our three themes – design, literacy, and practice – we will explore how to bring access to all through plain language. Co-hosted by Clarity, the Center for Plain Language […]

Three days virtual conference dedicated to using plain language to break down barriers in society. We will explore five stories or themes that show how plain language can increase access, justice, and transparency for all. Co-hosted by Clarity, the Center for Plain Language and PLAIN. Register now! Over 500 high-level professionals attended Clarity’s 2018 international […]

Held at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale in Boulogne, France. Clarity2005 explored the theme ‘Clarity and Obscurity in Legal Language’, with a feature presentation by Clarity founder John Walton and a series of masterclasses with legal drafting experts. Read conference papers in Clarity, no. 54 and Clarity, no. 55.

Co-hosted by Clarity, the Mexican Ministry of Public Administration and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. The theme of Clarity2008 was ‘Legal Language: Transparent and Efficient’, reflecting the Mexican Government’s efforts to promote the use of plain language as a route to becoming more transparent, efficient, and closer to citizens’ needs. It was the first Clarity conference […]

Dr Jeanne-Louise Moys is a lecturer in Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. She is a affiliated to the Centre for Information Design Research – a multidisciplinary research centre which explores the design of complex information. Jeanne-Louise will share how typographic presentation influences whether people are motivated to read complex and legal information, and […]

Joint event with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.Our speaker is Dr Jeffrey Barnes, Senior Lecturer in law at La Trobe University in Australia.Plain language, and whether it works in legislation, is a special interest of Dr Barnes and was the subject of his PhD thesis. London Clarity event. Please email daphne.perry@clarifynow.co.uk to register for this event.

Clarity member Dominiek Braet is Content Delivery & DCX manager at Euroclear – a business providing settlement services for share, bond and fund transactions, holding assets worth 28 trillion Euros, around the world. He continues to work towards making all Euroclear’s daily communications – including its legal documents – support its commercial aim of “making […]

Clarity member Alan Blanchard is the editorial team leader at the Financial Conduct Authority. He and his team publish the FCA Handbook, a massive work whose contents regulate much of the financial services industry in the UK. In 2014 the FCA launched a project to make FCA communications more constructive, consistent, concise, clear and compelling. […]

Professor Cheryl Thomas, Professor of Judicial Studies at University College London, will tell us about her research into jurors’ understanding of the instructions judges give them. Her 2010 study, ‘Are Juries Fair?‘, found that when judges provide written directions on the law to jurors this helps jurors better understand how specific legal terms are used […]

Clarity member Alan Blanchard is the editorial team leader at the Financial Conduct Authority. He and his team publish the FCA Handbook, a massive work whose contents regulate much of the financial services industry in the UK. In 2014 the FCA launched a project to make FCA communications more constructive, consistent, concise, clear and compelling. […]