This document deals with legal communication, and it builds on the foundation for plain language in ISO 24495-1. It establishes guidelines and techniques to help authors make sure that readers can readily understand legal communication and exercise their legal rights and obligations.


This document explains how to apply principles from ISO 24495-1 in legal contexts that require authors to achieve these goals:


—     reach multiple audiences with different needs;


—     adhere to legally required structural and design requirements;


—     explain complex and nuanced legal concepts;


—     explain processes that readers must ...