SOME ASPECTS FOR ENSURING READABILITY OF LEGAL ACTS

Abstract

The article is focused on the analysis of certain aspects of the problem for ensuring the readability of legal acts. The author argues and substantiates the idea that the need to ensure understandability or readability of legal acts' content is predetermined by the requirements of legal certainty, which is considered as an integral element of the rule of law principle. The author substantiates the position that semantic-textual expertise is an effective method to ensure the readability of legal acts. Besides, particular attention is paid to the fact that those legal acts that are issued at the local level remain, in fact, without any semantic-textual examination. Specific suggestions aimed at clarifying the goals and functions of semantic-textual examination are formulated in the article. The author notes that successful semantic-textual examination cannot be ensured without prior training of the relevant specialists. In this regard, the author of the article brings up for discussion the issue of training (within the framework of University education) legal linguists who are capable (in the future) to identify terminological, lexical-semantic and logical-syntactic errors in legal acts at a high professional level. Particular attention in the article is paid to the need to develop electronic database of the terms of law, which, first of all, must be constantly updated and, secondly, should be mandatory used by all subjects, primarily by rule-making ones.