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Display your Terms and Conditions (samonsoftware.com)
4 points by samh on Sept 20, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



You mention the real solution is an agreement people are willing to read. How about showing a colloquial, "human-readable" version of the Terms and Conditions with a link to the full legalese?


Exactly. But there are legal issues with that, if you say "Here is our legal agreement, here is another agreement I want you to read" in court people will argue they should only be held to the agreement they were asked to read.

I agree with you, but we cant solve the problem with having a 'legal' and a 'human readable' version, we need the legal version to be human readable (ok ok lawyers are humans also :) )

It's claimed that legal language is needed because it's more precise, that's not true.

Take a relatively simple legal case in which no facts are in disputer, ask 5 highly paid barristers for an opinion on the case and compare.




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