title: Intelligibility of legal document: legal fiction or presumption?
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Belov, Sergei A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Tarasova, Kristina V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-12-13T19:02:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-12-13T19:02:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Belov, Sergei A., Tarasova, Kristina V. 2019. “Intelligibility of legal document: legal fiction or presumption?” Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 4: 610–625.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2019.401
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16864
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The authors of the article focus on the problem of legal assessments and legal consequences
  of (not) understanding of legal documents (both normative and individual acts). Many legal
  norms recognize this circumstance as relevant for law, requiring the intelligibility of legal documents,
  though the application of its legal significance and consequences are not clear. In the
  researched Russian judicial practice more and more often citizens cite instances where, that
  in spite of provided access to а legal document, they could not follow the meaning because
  they could not understand them. A reason for this situation is the complicated language of
  legal texts, The authors conduct an analysis of Russian judicial decisions to conclude that the
  Russian courts usually do not acknowledge for legal purposes the fact of not understanding
  legal documents. This could lead to the conclusion that intelligibility of a legal document is a
  legal fiction recognized regardless of the facts. Nevertheless, some rare judicial judgments in
  Russian legal practice demonstrate that a lack of comprehension of the legal documents was
  acknowledged by the court. Based on this, the authors finally conclude that an understanding
  of legal documents can be treated as a presumption rather than fiction, but leave open the
  question of how this presumption can be rebutted.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law;Volume 10; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intelligibility of legal texts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: plain language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal documents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal communication
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal linguistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal fiction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal presumption
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Intelligibility of legal document: legal fiction or presumption?
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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