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No: That'd be impossible. But it is reasonable to have these sorts of things understandable to the average high school graduate and to the average retiree (dif
by Broken_Hippo 4y ago
No: That'd be impossible.
But it is reasonable to have these sorts of things understandable to the average high school graduate and to the average retiree (different schooling, different mental statuses). And by average, I truly mean that the range of average should be able to read it so that comprehension should be widespread.
If your average high school graduate cannot comprehend it, your wording is too difficult, your education too poor, your document was written by people without the skills to talk plainly, or a combination of these.
- denton-scratch 4y agoIt seems too obvious to be worth saying: the law should be simple enough to understand that people of good will can comply with it without engaging a lawyer. Very few of us have a lawyer in our back-pocket nowadays. Sure, laws regulating some kinds of financial transactions and contracts are necessarily going to be complicated and hard to understand. But the general rule should be "If the law isn't something an ordinary person could be expected to know, then they aren't bound by it". That would put an end to clever-clever legal drafting.