Assessing plain and intelligible language in the Consumer Rights Act: a role for reading scores?

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Assessing plain and intelligible language in the Consumer Rights Act: a role for reading scores?

Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 consumer contracts and consumer notices are required to be expressed in plain and intelligible language. This is a difficult concept to capture. Determining whether a contract is expressed in plain and intelligible language involves resource intensive work by regul...

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Main Authors:	Conklin, Kathy, Hyde, Richard, Parente, Fabio
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2019
Subjects:	Contracts; Insurance; Consumer Protection; Reading Scores; Regulation; Linguistic Analysis
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51073/

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