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Perspektywy podnoszenia zrozumiałości tekstów aktów prawnych poprzez zmianę paradygmatu budowy struktury odesłań
Perspectives for improving the comprehensibility of legal text by changing the paradigm of reference structure construction

Author(s): Wojciech Cyrul, Tomasz Pełech-Pilichowski
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Administrative Law
Published by: Kancelaria Sejmu
Keywords: legal references; automation; control; hypertext;comprehensibility;

Summary/Abstract: The tabular structure of legal texts and the principles of their drafting result in the frequent use of various types of references, which has a negative impact on the comprehensibility of the law. As legal texts are nowadays drafted and made available in electronic format, it is reasonable to try to develop automated mechanisms for checking the correctness of references contained in these texts. The paper shows how a particular type of automated and dedicated information management mechanisms, offered by the so-called adaptive hypertexts, can be used for this purpose. The authors focus primarily on describing the specificity of this type of tools and on analyzing the possibilities, principles and prospects of their use in order to improve the quality of legal texts, in particular their comprehensibility.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-36
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English, Polish