RE: Tilting at windmills: Doc design vs. lawyers and accountants

["Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

Paul,

Yes, we have Plain English laws here (they mostly cover government regulations and consumer sales contracts); and I know mine is not a new refrain (in fact it could be argued that a refrain is never new, I suppose). I just wondered if anyone had accomplished anything on the design side.

Thanks for the quote, though. It's a keeper ;-)

Dick

Paul Newbold wrote:

>Yours is not a new refrain Dick - check out the website of the Campaign for
>Plain English at http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/law.html for the quote 
>'In 1936, Fred Rodell, a professor of law at Harvard, argued that there 'are
>two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other
>is its content. That, I think, about covers the ground.' 
>
>The site's more about language than layout but the two are closely related.
>There must be a US version of the said campaign, if not you could start one
>(I'm assuming that's where you are)!
>


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