Plain language

The Cleardocs founder and CEO, Christopher Balmford, is an internationally recognised expert in making legal and related documents clear, accurate and easy to use. Christopher provides plain language training, advises on communication cultural-change programs and rewrites documents.

Christopher is the President of Clarity an international not for profit organisation that advocates for clear legal communication, see http://www.clarity-international.net/.

In April 2010, Christopher was the MC at the inaugural ClearMark and WonderMark Awards which the Center for Plain Language presented at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. — see http://www.centerforplainlanguage.org/.

Plain language services

As well as founding Cleardocs, Christopher founded Words and Beyond Pty Ltd which provides plain language training, advises on clear-communication cultural-change programs, and rewrites documents to be as clear as they can be.

Words and Beyond's clients include more than 20 government bodies, more than 30 public listed companies, 8 major national law firms (and other law firms), the Labour Organization of the United Nations, and the European Central Bank.

For information about plain language services, see http://www.wordsandbeyond.com/.

Plain language and Cleardocs

Cleardocs was founded on the firm belief that people want legal documents to be clear. The hallmarks of the Cleardocs brand are "clarity, simplicity, ease of use".

At Cleardocs we strive to make our documents, interfaces, help text and newsletters etc as clear as we can.

More information

You can:

• ring Christopher on 1300 307 343 or email him at support@cleardocs.com to enquire further about these specialist services; or
• read about the document packages Cleardocs provides by clicking on ‘Products’ in the dark-blue bar at the top of the page.