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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, […]

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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.

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 […]

Zsófia Moldova is a lawyer at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and head of its Justice Programme. She contributed to researches assessing the enforcement of defendants’ rights. She coordinated the project ‘Accessible Letters of Rights of Europe’, which developed a unique methodology for testing the accessibility of the Letters of Rights.

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.

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 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, […]

Published in The Clarity Journal 82 – 2020. Background Northwest Justice Project (NJP) and the Superior Court of Washington have long relied on plain language and readable design to support people who want access to legal forms and information, but do not have lawyers. In 2018, NJP asked Transcend to create 6 new legal icons […]

Published in The Clarity Journal 81 – 2020. The right to a trial by jury is one of the fundamental elements of the American system of justice. Jurors are asked to engage in a complicated and difficult task, listening to different versions of facts provided by the parties at a trial and applying their understanding […]