Sentences with phrase «adopt plain language»

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Other suggestions, based on earlier ABA reports, include: provide legal representation as a matter of right where basic human needs are at stake; provide adequate compensation and funding to those who deliver legal services to ensure effective and competent representation; and have courts adopt standardized, uniform, plain - language forms for proceedings with a significant number of self - represented litigants.

In particular, when drafting, plain language should be adopted, spelling out any restriction in certain terms, failing which the restriction will not be fit for purpose, will have no effect, and a professional negligence claim may well follow.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has adopted a set of plain - language forms and instructions for use in uncontested divorces between parties with minor children in an effort to simplify divorce proceedings for parties that fall into that category.

66 They also used LIWC to measure plain language by calculating the inverse of the average words per sentence.67 Both were positively associated with the percentage of brief language adopted in the Court's opinion and the associations were highly significant.68 Our study builds on this multi-factor approach to measuring readability.

For example, Feldman analyzed the quality of Supreme Court merits briefs using a composite of features such as passivity, wordiness, sentence length, and tone.63 He found that brief readability was positively associated with the percentage of brief language adopted in the opinion and that the association was highly significant.64 Similarly, Collins et al. analyzed the «cognitive clarity» and plain language of Supreme Court amicus briefs.65 They measured cognitive clarity using the dictionary - based Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program (LIWC), which relied on an index of categories that relate to cognitive clarity such as «causation, insight, discrepancy, inhibition, tentativeness, certainty, exclusiveness, inclusiveness, negations, and the percentage of words containing six or more letters.»

«That use of plain language can definitely be adopted by the courts.»