Sentences with phrase «plain english law»

The NOLO Plain English Law Dictionary goes on to say that, «The annual increase in the cash value of the policy is not taxed».

For non-lawyers, Barron's also has the advantage of using slightly less legalese in its definitions — not to the extreme of the Nolo's Plain English Law Dictionary, but enough to be appreciated by non-lawyers.

Nolo's Plain English Law Dictionary: Provides the definitions in plain English to more than 4,000 legal terms.

Pennsylvania has a fair - sounding Plain English law for consumer contracts.17 It articulates a «Test of Readability» that includes the regular list of suspects — short sentences, no passives, and no technical terms.18 Its subsection 2205 (d)(1)(I), part of the «Test of Readability» section, requires a contract to have a statement that contains the following:

This led to (and this is my favorite part of this section of Tiersma's book) the first legal writing in plain English law.

Not exact matches

«OTA's leadership betrayed the more than 90 percent of Americans who support mandatory labeling of GMOs by working behind the scenes with federal lawmakers to craft a federal law that ensures food corporations will never have to reveal, in plain English on product labels, the GMO ingredients in their products,» Ronnie Cummins, international director of the Organic Consumers Association, said in a statement.

In plain English, that means that NC law says that tenants are not generally responsible for accidental damage to the premises as long as they used reasonable care.

An accountant or attorney who specializes in tax law — like the professionals at Optima Tax Relief, can translate the legalese generated by Congress and the IRS into plain English, and help ensure that you are able to take full advantage of all the tax breaks to which you are entitled.

In addition, compliance information on select regulated products provides APPA members the «Plain English» version of the law in order to assist in maintaining regulated product registration requirements.

The Cat Group, the collaborative group of animal charities and organisations working on cat health and welfare, has published a new booklet entitled «Cats and the Law - a plain English guide».

I have written a plain English book, with cartoons, to explain this difficult area of the law to people who need to understand it.

Bart: Could you clarify in plain English why according to you the Laws of Physics re CO2 and AGW hold in some places, but not in others, e.g. New York, Indianapolis, Des Moines, Salt Lake City, Houston, Sacramento, LA, San Francisco, Fresno, San Juan (PR), Hilo (Hawaii), Barrow, Tasmania, Queensland et many al..?

Jotwell — which stands for Journal of Things We Like (Lots)-- features relatively brief law prof - authored reviews of recent scholarly articles in plain English.

In what they are calling an unprecedented online collaboration, seven of the most influential U.S. law reviews are collaborating to launch The Legal Workshop, an online magazine featuring plain - English articles based on scholarly counterparts published in traditional law journals.

The Legal Workshop features short, plain - English articles about legal issues and ideas, written by an author whose related, full - length work of scholarship is forthcoming in one of the participating law reviews.

Legalworkshop.org aims to bring content from some of the most prestigious law reviews in the nation to a wider audience by offering condensed version of articles translated from scholarly language into plain English, and at no cost.

Users ask legal questions in plain English and Ross searches legislation, case law and secondary sources.

The attorneys at our law firm also take pride in answering client's legal questions in plain English, while offering viable solutions to resolve conflicts.

Chambers USA 2007 America's Leading Lawyers for Business reports: «Clients raved about Steve Geanacopoulos, who worked on various private equity matters: «He is a member of our strategic planning team as much as a legal resource — he offers invaluable commercial advice, interpreting the intricacies of the law in plain English, allowing you to make an informed decision.»

Some of our services remain eligible for legal aid; those that are not are provided at a fixed price, so people need not fear the uncertainty of not knowing what the service will cost them...; We offer modular [unbundled] services, so that we can put together bespoke packages that suit everyone's pocket; We offer extended services by phone and email, so that people who do not want to come into an office don't need to (whether it's because they are simply busy or because they've been subjected to violence and prefer to remain in a place where they know they are safe); We offer flexible hours, including evenings and weekends; We demystify law by talking to clients in plain English...

Throughout my 5 years at law school I continually asked myself one question: why can't these guys just write in plain English?

But legal writing in plain English gained traction in the U.S. in 1963, when David Mellinkoff published The Language of the Law.

In Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please, Kimble cites 50 studies and reports — both inside and outside the law — showing that plain English saves time and money for writers and readers alike.

Here at Maritime Law Book we have used a book of less than 100 pages titled Plain English for Lawyers by Richard Wydick.

David Mellinkoff's book, published in 1963, is credited with starting the plain English movement in American law.

Though I support «plain English», I am very hesitant about the idea of requiring its use by law.

Like the Bryan Garner fan I was, I wrote it in plain English and sent it to opposing counsel, who worked for a top - 25 law firm.

Since Mellinkoff's The Language of the Law, other legal - writing experts have continued to push for legal writing in plain English.

Citing examples from contracts to courts to the SEC, she refers to the drive for plain English in the law as «a movement.»

Having a love for plain living, the Puritans considered abolishing the common law, including its courts and practitioners, and replacing the common law with a pocket - sized code in ordinary English.

Legal writing in plain English may be populist in that it seeks to increase understanding of the law, but populism comes in both liberal and conservative flavors.

However, as for plain English interpretations of the law... that's possibly at odds with your question, which asks for «actual UK law paragraphs».

Are there any law blogs that bring in Legal Writing professors to write posts translating into Plain English what the law bloggers previously wrote about?

You ask your questions in plain English and ROSS then reads through the entire body of recorded law, gathering evidence and drawing inferences about the materials it has evaluated.

More recently, Professor Ken Adams, Adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School, through his blog, Adams on Contract Drafting, his book, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (currently in its 3rd edition), and his many seminars, has been doing what he can to advance the cause of what he prefers to call drafting in «standard English» (rather than «plain language» drafting).

There are five main reasons why: (1) Latin is inconsistent with the Plain - English Movement in American law; (2) Latin tends to obscure rather than clarify prose, even if your reader has legal training; (3) Lawyers often use Latin as a substitute for lucid expression of complex thoughts, or merely to impress the reader; (4) Latin can result in comic legal - writing blunders; and (5) Latin can lead to dangerous, sometimes outcome - determinative ambiguities.

An English judge wrote, almost 50 years ago, in Ilkiw v.Samuel [1963] 2 All ER 879 at 889: «[t] he law is nearly always most obscure [when] judges say the principle is plain but the difficulty lies in its application to the particular facts».

While some schools now make it compulsory for law students to study a Plain Legal English module, the push for simplicity is rolling on a slow tide towards Nigeria.

Ellen provides advice to employers and employees in plain English on all aspects of employment law including: drafting and reviewing employment contracts, workplace policies, termination provisions, non-competition clauses and restrictive covenants, wrongful and constructive dismissal litigation, employment standards, workplace investigations, occupational health and safety issues as well as human rights in the workplace.

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The plain English is a delight and the text commentary on the relevant law is erudite, practical and invaluable.

It may comprise: advice on complying with pre-action protocols; exploring the different avenues available for alternative dispute resolution (ADR); providing clients with a glossary of terms they will be come across in the court process; instruction sheets in plain English to explain aspects of procedure and the essential law to be applied (translated to be available in Welsh or foreign languages); how to provide disclosure; preparing court documents such as witness statements, case and costs summaries, chronologies and skeleton arguments; complying with the Rules in relation to service of documents, the preparation of statements of case, the appointment and instruction of expert witnesses; the importance of CPR Pt 36; or how to prepare for and what to expect at a financial dispute resolution (FDR) or a final hearing / trial.

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.

Our goal is to explain, in plain English, all of the benefits you are entitled to under Illinois law.

Modern tax laws lack old - fashioned charmBy Vanessa Houlder in FT March 3 2006 The volume of income tax legislation has expanded five-fold as a result of a painstaking effort to rewrite its Byzantine terminology in plain English.

Top Quality: Our course content is easy to understand and written in plain English, and the material is constantly updated with new driving laws and traffic regulations.

Nolo Press has a new book, «Divorce After 50», a fine addition to their plain - English law books, legal forms, software and website.

You tell us the facts, and we will tell you your rights and the law, and we will tell you in plain English.

While the effects of the new tax law can be summed up for divorce mediators in 6 points, in this workshop each one of those points will be turned from jargon to plain English.

Plain English reference material for Aboriginal communities and groups (IP laws, etc): http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/socialscience/managingaboriginalknowledge.html