Learning to be clear Antwerp – Brussels, Belgium Conference programme 12-14 November 2014

Learning to be clear
Antwerp – Brussels, Belgium
Conference programme
12-14 November 2014
Room: Belle Epoque
Room: Belle Epoque
CONFERENCE AT-A-GLANCE
Pre-conference welcome Antwerp
• Registration
• Keynote: No the law does not (normally) require legalese.
Joe Kimble, law professor Thomas Cooley Law School, USA
| 11 November 2014 | Pre-conference welcome
clear communications.
Josiah Fisk, USA
Dominique Joseph, Canada
Ginny Redish, USA
Cases: Clear language in business, what’s the
benefit? Cases from the financial sector.
Case 1: Euroclear ‘Tone of Voice’: how we get
our staff to adopt plain language.
Dominiek Braet, Belgium
14:00−14:50
18:30−20:00
17:50
16:50−17:50
Reception at the Antwerp City Hall
Close
• Is teaching law students to write in plain language hazardous to their wallets?
Ann Nowak, USA
• Law: we need a change of culture. Didier Ketels, Belgium
• Clarity through information design. Florian Halm, Austria
• Swedish e-learning course in plain language. Ingrid Olsson, Sweden
• Three cases of clear language for the citizen in Chile. Claudia Poblete, Chile
• Plain language to promote literacy. Rosa M. Galán, Mexico
Pecha-Kucha – six speakers from six countries in six-minutes sessions
Plenary session: My testing problem… and yours. The uses, limits and pitfalls of research and
testing in creating better communications.
Josiah Fisk, president of More Carrot, USA
16:10−16:50
Martijn Jacobs, The Netherlands
Lynda Harris, New Zealand
Networking break
Christopher Balmford, Australia
Presentation: Installing a clear communication
policy in organisations. Success leaves clues.
14:55−15:45
15:45−16:10
Workshop: How to get a document’s structure
Short break
14:50−14:55
Chair: Bernard Lambeau, Luxembourg, USA
Panel discussion and questions
implement a plain writing policy?
Gayl Russell, UK
Case 3: Why should your legal department
change programme at KBC bank.
Marc De Clercq, Belgium
Case 2: ‘Writing your language’, an internal
right — four personalities and three steps.
Workshop: Plan, write, design and evaluate
Lunch
12.45−14:00
Room: Lijn
Writing and rewriting
Learning to be clear: the IC Clear experience.
Karine Nicolay, project coordinator IC Clear and partners
Room: Belle Epoque
Business
Networking break
11:25−11:55
The objectives do not meet the finalities. Clear writing efforts in the Belgian public sector.
Karl Hendrickx, language counselor at the Belgian Court of Audit
Emily O’Reilly, European ombudsman
Keynote: Clear language means better government?
11:55−12:45
10:55−11:25
10:15−10:55
Welcome
10:00−10:15
• Eamonn Moran, law draftsman Department of Justice, Australia = master of ceremony
• Joh Kirby, president of Clarity International and executive director of Victoria Law Foundation,
Australia
• Karine Nicolay, project coordinator IC Clear, Thomas More University College, Belgium
Registration services open
09:00−10:00
Wednesday | 12 November 2014 | Day 01
19:30−20:30
19:00−19:30
Tuesday
Olivia Zarcate, France
Bernard Lambeau, Luxembourg
Eamonn Moran, Australia, Hong Kong
William Robinson, UK
Hayley Rogers, UK
Richard Spitz, UK
Chair: Nicole Fernbach, Canada
Workshop: Le design d’information comme
complément au langage clair.
Panel: Drafting good laws
Chair: Jenny Gracie
Presentation 2: Klarsprache / Clear language
for Austrian law makers – a report.
Rudolf Muhr, Austria
Chair: Lucie Lauzière
Nicole Fernbach, Canada
Jean-François Funck, Belgium
Laëtitia Mary, France
Presentation 1: Putting the civility into New
Zealand Civil Collections — plain language in
court documents.
James Burgess, New Zealand
the judicial system.
Panel : Plus de clarté pour plus de justice.
Room: Groenplaats 2
Sessions in French
Presentations: Clarity in the court room and in
Room: Groenplaats 1
Law and justice
Chair: Karel Van der Waarde, Belgium
Panel discussion summarising the section
on health literacy and questions
Christopher Trudeau, USA
Presentation 3: Reimaging informed
consent in the age of health literacy.
Presentation 2: Legislation on the information about medicines for patients and the
needs for patients and medical staff.
Karel van der Waarde, Belgium
Presentation 1: Assessing the health
literacy environment.
Leen Haesaert, Belgium
Presentations and panel
Room: Teun
Health literacy
Belle Epoque
Belle Epoque
CONFERENCE AT-A-GLANCE
Keynote: The sense of style: A writing guide for the 21st century.
Steven Pinker, professor Harvard, USA – followed by a panel discussion led by Ginny Redish, USA
Closing speech by the Belgian Minister of Justice Koen Geens.
Chair: Stefan Hampl, Austria
Chair: Judith Mulder, The Netherlands
16:50−17:30
Presentation 2: Pragmatics basis for the
democratiation of the administrative and legal
genres.
Javier Martinez-Villarroya, México
Presentation 2: Should the importance of clear
communication outweigh legal accuracy in tax
communication?
Tirza Cramwinckel, The Netherlands
Plenary session: Permanent clarity: achieving critical mass in government communication.
Neil James, executive director of the Plain English Foundation, Australia.
Presentation 1: Psychological Mechanisms of
Clear Communication.
Amrei Joerchel, Austria
Presentation 1: Developing a new voting
system in the Netherlands.
Francien Malecki, The Netherlands
16:10−16:50
Presentations
Psychological mechanisms
Chair: Aino Piehl, Finland
Panel discussion summarising the section
about the Nordic-Baltic experience + questions
Presentation 5: Clear communication in the
Estonian society – for whom and why.
Katrin Hallik and Katre Kasemets, Estonia
Nordic and Baltic experience
Presentation 4: Plain language in two official
languages – is there an advantage?
Eivor Sommardahl and Aino Piehl, Finland
Presentation 3: How a red government
initiative turned blue – plain language under
changing political winds.
Torunn Reksten, Norway
Presentations
Presentation 2: The challenges of
communicating the law to the general public.
Joh Kirby, Australia
Chair: Christopher Balmford
statistical surveys and clear communication –
a difficult partnership.
Karin Hansson, Sweden
Communicating with citizens
Presentations
Presentation 1: Contact strategies for
Networking break
Short break
Lunch
Case: Using electronic tools for clear drafting,
tips and tricks.
Daphne Perry, UK
15:45−16:10
14:55−15:45
14:50−14:55
14:00−14:50
12:45−14:00
Chair: Deborah Bosley, USA
Presentation 2: Plain language in Norwegian
food and animal welfare regulations.
Margrete Kilde Nes and Bjørnar Stavenes,
Norway
Presentation 1: Assessing the clarity of US-government food assistance applications post
plain writing act. Leah Katherine Saal, USA
Presentations: Plain language in food and
animal welfare regulations.
11:55−12:45
Chair: Annetta Cheek, USA
Panel discussion summarising the section on
research and questions
Panel
Presentation 3: Learning from consumers
through testing.
Susan Kleimann, USA
Presentation 2: Even lawyers want to understand lawyers: new evidence showing that plain
language increases lawyers’ credibility.
Kath Straub, USA
impact of traditional court summons.
Tialda Sikkema, The Netherlands
Presentations and panel
Presentation 1: Scary papers. The emotional
Researching clear language
claire: une étape cruciale dans un processus
multifacette.
Olivier Beaujean, Belgium
Dominique Joseph, Canada
Anne Vervier, Belgium
Workshop: Former en rédaction juridique
Chair: Marilu Madrunio, The Philippines
Presentation 2: Evolving a model on the
linguistic features of Philippine consumer
products.
Shielanie Dacumos, The Philippines
Presentation 1: The road to clarity: using
an holistic and user-centered design in
simplifying a Philippine consumer contract.
Rachelle Lintao, The Philippines
A story of the Philippines
Protecting the consumer
Presentation: To boldly go where we’ve
never been before – clear communication
meets content strategy.
Frances Gordon, South Africa - Portugal
Content strategy
legal writing.
Greg Moriarty, Australia
Workshop: Convincing lawyers on clear
Chair: Tialda Sikkema
model: from national to local language
campaigns.
Anne Kjaergaard, Denmark
Chair: Aino Piehl
Chair: Joh Kirby
Chair: Eric Goubin
Short break
Presentation 1: At the chalkface: challenges of teaching clear legal writing to
non-native English speakers.
Natasha Costello, France
Presentation 2: Teaching legal translators
to pursue clarity.
Victor Gonzalez-Ruiz, Spain
Dominique Markey, Belgium
Stéphanie Roy, Canada
Presentation 1: A millennium of plain
Language – the history, the ideology, the
arguments.
Eva Olovsson, Sweden
Presentation 2: What to do when they don’t
want to change? Teaching plain English in
developing countries.
Geoff Webb, Singapore
Bart Weekers, Belgium
Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove, Belgium
Presentations
Room: Teun
Teaching clear legal language
Presentation 2: The Danish plain language
informer le consommateur.
Workshop: Rédaction des contrats: mieux
Room: Groenplaats 2
Workshops in French
backed by the state: experiences from Nordic
and Baltic countries.
Presentations and panel: Plain language
Room: Groenplaats 1
Nordic and Baltic experience
Presentation 1: Foxed and fined: how unclear
contractual parking signs bamboozle motorists.
Martin Cutts, UK
Room: Lijn
Clear communication practice
Presentation: Clear communication: a joint
responsibility ‘Flemish Ombudsman’ and
‘Flemish Infoline’.
Room: Belle Epoque
Government
Networking break
Chair: Ginny Redish
11:50−11:55
11:00−11:50
10:40−11:00
Registration services open
09:00−10:40
Panel: Sandra Fisher-Martins, Portugal, Christopher Trudeau, USA, Karen Schriver, USA
| 13 November | Day 02
Thursday
08:30−09:00
CONFERENCE AT-A-GLANCE
Friday
LOGO
| 14 November (European Commission – Brussels) | Day 03
09:00−10:00
Registration services open
10:00−10:05
Welcome by Rytis Martikonis
10:05−10:30
Keynote: The EU in a multilingual world.
Primary logos
Secondary logos
Current Logo: Color
Catherine Day, Secretary-General of the European Commission
A
10:30−11:30
Theme 1: Bringing clarity to global communications
Introduction by Rytis Martikonis
• Writing clearly for 28 Member States.
an international association
Reijo Kemppinen, EU
Current Logo: Black & White promoting plain legal language
• Developing plain language guidelines internationally,
To be used when tagline is necessa
Karen Schriver, USA
Discussion
B
11-30−12:30
Theme 2: The importance of clear legal drafting
Introduction by William Robinson, UK: How can we make EU legislation clearer?
• Both legally correct and clearly understandable.
An international association
Viktor Soloveytchik, EU
promoting plain legal language
• The US Plain Writing Act: Ensuring the citizen’s right to clarity.Web only
Annetta Cheek, USA
Discussion
Proposed C
Additional Logo: Color
12:30−13:15
Clear Writing Awards
13:15−14:30
Lunch
Friday
19.30
Saturday
09.30−12.30
| 14 November (Hilton - Antwerp) | Day 03
Conference dinner
To be used only in combination with
D
Proposed Additional Logo: Black & White
| 15 November 2014 (Hilton - Antwerp)
Clear legal writing seminars in English, French and Dutch for lawyers and legal professionals
Proposed IcClear/Clarity Logo Lock-Up
An event of Clarity and IC Clear
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University college
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promoting plain legal language
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European commission
an international association promoting plain legal language
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promoting plain legal language
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Supported by
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Karen Schriver Associates, Inc.
Communication Design and Research
Redish
& Associates Inc.
We’re proud to sponsor IC Clear | Clarity
2014. And proud to be a local. From
our Luxembourg office, we’re quietly
revolutionising how European business and
legal documents are written, designed, and
managed. Call it the power of the carrot.
And a salute to a fine local tradition.
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