Sentences with phrase «require plain language»

The best of these courts are consumer friendly, use simplified procedures, require plain language (not legalese), and do not allow lawyers.

In fact, they usually require plain language, practical responses and succinct promises.

Not exact matches

The Bank Act requires Canadian chartered and Authorized Foreign Banks to inform customers in plain language that coercive tied selling is illegal.

The Bank Act requires banks to inform customers in plain language that coercive tied selling is illegal.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

He has introduced legislation that would require police to give the familiar list of rights to defendants under 18 in «plain language.»

Through the revised SNS provision in ESSA, school districts are freed from this restrictive formula, but they are still required to report how they spent their Title I funds — and the law's plain language gives auditors what they need to check the books.

The plainest interpretation of constitutional language simply requires that charter schools not charge tuition, which they do not.

The claim is just plain wrong when one considers that these privately - owned, but publicly - funded schools are consistently «creaming off» selected students from their communities and openly discriminating against Latinos, student who face English language barriers and students who require special education services.

The FTA's Office of Communications and Congressional Affairs conducts plain language reviews of all documents requiring their approval.

We recognize that plain language requires a sustained commitment across the entire Department, and we are working to provide additional guidance and resources.

As students are not so advanced and master player of words, they use customary and plain language while writing a thesis statement that fails to fetch the much - required attention.

(And these are explicitly required by the plain language of the Constitution) All government officials need to stay within the authority granted to them by the Constitution, especially when that means they can't do whatever they want.

While criteria for determining ratings were defined prior to the rating period, some clarifications and amendments were required as specific situations presented themselves» Cook very specifically and in plain language stated that the reviewers were both independent and anonymized.

Pointing towards the plain language of the statute, the Arizona Court of Appeals concluded the family court was required to consider the statutory relocation factors only when one of two prerequisites were met:

There's really no statutory authority for the AIG takeover... I won't bother noting that the DC Circuit, were it to sit in judgment on whether the Fed could buy the world's largest insurer, would undoubtedly conclude that the plain language of its governing statute (which is to make emergency loans, not require takeovers in exchange) would not permit the takeover under Chevron USA v. NRDC.

Courts were also urged to consider streamlining litigation processes through uniform, plain - language forms and adding multilingual written materials and translators and interpreters to accommodate the 325,000 judicial proceedings in 119 different languages requiring an interpreter each year.

The principles barriers to the intelligibility of a particular law are, in my view, are excessively involuted sentence structure, the use of language other than in its plain or ordinary sense, and recursive drafting techniques that require the reader to interpret one section by reference to another.

A policy must be conceived and agreed upon that clearly explains, in plain language, which transactions do not require legal review.

Legislation requiring «plain language» is a bold move, because it risks becoming an illustration of Fodden's Law of Perversity (which has no general statement, only corollaries, one of which might be, for instance, that «courses on teaching are invariably badly taught»).

MCL 722.27 (1) authorizes the continuing jurisdiction of a circuit court to modify or amend its previous judgments or orders and is an exception to MCR 7.208 (A) «otherwise provided by law» because it would be contrary to the plain language of the CCA to require a court to wait for the conclusion of an appeal to address a change in circumstances that would affect the interests of the child.

As in the proposed rule, we require the notice to be written in plain language.

Response: We require covered entities to write the notice in plain language so that the average reader will be able to understand the notice.

We proposed to require covered entities to describe in plain language the uses and disclosures of protected health information, and the covered entity's policies and procedures with respect to such uses and disclosures, that the health plan or covered provider expected to make without individual authorization.

We do, however, require the notice to be written in plain language.

If the model form was not used, we proposed to require covered entities to use authorization forms written in plain language.

Regardless, I hope this is the first step of many toward requiring the use plain language where appropriate.