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Clarity welcomes new representative from Brazil
Anthony Charles de Novaes da Silva is an attorney who works at the intersection of Plain Legal Language and Legal Design, researching, teaching, writing, and speaking in Brazil and abroad, since 2018. Author of the first Legal Design book in Spanish (Legal Design: la clave para disrumpir la profesión, los negocios y el sector público, […]
Review of Draftsmith
Dr. Annetta Cheek, on behalf of Clarity International (https://www.clarity-international.org/) I have been involved in plain language issues since the mid 1990s, first as a a federal employee and then in the private sector. Among other roles, I was a founder of the Center for Plain Language, and served as Chair of that organization for its […]
Clarity’s conference 2022 in Japan cancelled
Clarity and the 2022 conference hosts, Japan Plain Language and English Consortium, would like to thank everyone for their interest in our conference scheduled to take place in Tokyo this year. Unfortunately, an international conference of the kind wished by Clarity is just not possible under current conditions in Japan and across the globe. For […]
Clarity conference 2022 in Japan cancelled
Clarity and the 2022 conference hosts, Japan Plain Language and English Consortium, would like to thank everyone for their interest in our conference scheduled to take place in Tokyo this year. Unfortunately, an international conference of the kind wished by Clarity is just not possible under current conditions in Japan and across the globe. For […]
Florence Cols
Florence Cols is a legal design expert at Droits Quotidiens since almost 10 years. Droits Quotidiens works for making law understandable and accessible for all by : (1) explaining rights and obligations in plain language; (2) creating visuals; and (3) helping professionals to rewrite their legal documents.
Improving access to criminal justice, by rewriting the Belgian letter of rights
Published in The Clarity Journal 82 – 2020. Introduction Persons under arrest receive a Letter of Rights, which explains them what are their rights : right to keep silent, right to get a lawyer, right to get medical help, etc. But this document isn’t adapt for them to correctly understand their rights, especially as they […]
Vera Gergely
Vera Gergely is a plain language consultant, who offers editing and training services to various companies and organizations. She introduced plain language to Hungary and wrote the first comprehensive Hungarian guide to plain language. She is a Board Member of PLAIN and the Hungarian representative of Clarity.
Lili Krámer
Lili Krámer is a sociologist-criminologist at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), a human rights NGO. She coordinates HHC’s project for promoting the use of plain language by criminal justice actors (judges, lawyers and police), in order to make the criminal procedure more accessible to people without a legal background.
Do you understand your rights? Making the Letters of Rights more accessible
Published in the Clarity Journal 81 – 2020 Introduction Lili Krámer, Zsófia Moldova, and Vera Gergely The Letter of Rights is a text that informs suspects of their fundamental rights (such as the right to remain silent or the right to have a lawyer). If you are suspected of something the police will either read […]
Joana Fernandes
Joana is a Clarity Maker at Claro and a freelance consultant for the Portuguese Ministry of Justice. With a background in Law and Journalism, she is passionate about ensuring that everyone has equal access to information and is able to understand it, to reduce the gap between the privileged and those who struggle. Since 2013, […]