This Handbook outlines the techniques of clear writing for legal professionals, academics, students of the law and the judiciary and establishes a context for the development of plain language documents.

New in the Second Edition New chapters

• Plain Language and the Courts
• Briefs in Plain Language
• Securities Commissions and Auditors Take on Plain Language
• Health Law and Plain Language
• Aboriginal Law and the Need for Plain-Language Documents
• Plain Language for Contracts
• Reviews of current international legal plain-language books by law professors, judges, and lawyers who are plain-language specialists
• Many international initiatives and how plain language has expanded both in Canada and in other English-speaking countries
• A full plain-language will with a permission-to-use from the author
• An introduction to court initiatives