Check out this podcast episode for German-based Rechtsgesprach in which our very own Robert de Rooy talks about how he came up with the idea of comic contracts and how these can help legally vulnerable people.
AgDevCo has released infographics on worker rights and expectations, suitable for any African workplace. They are available free of charge in multiple languages (Swahili, Twi, Chichewa, French, English and Portuguese). Helping our investees build job quality, decent work and gender equality is a key part of AgDevCo’s development impact. Through our technical assistance facility (TAF) work we offer portfolio companies many resources to support the development and implementation of formalised HR systems and documentation. For examples and to read more, click here.
There is a legal language that is more universal than text, that can communicate across language and cultural barriers: it is the language of visual images. Visual communication of law provides a means to transmit the content, meaning, and implications of law and legal analysis in legal documents and multimodal communications that are accessible and understandable not only to those trained in the law or highly literate in the dominant written language of the communication, but also to those whose basic language skills in the dominant language of the communication would otherwise not allow them to receive or understand the legal advice, rights, or requirements contained in the communication. READ MORE
Checkout the latest project by Prof. Camilla Anderson in Australia! Bankwest will introduce a comic-style version of its terms and conditions in a bid to make convoluted legal clauses simpler and more engaging for customers. The West Australian subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank has rolled out visual terms and conditions for its everyday transaction account. The graphics are part of an effort to simplify and cut down the amount of text a person needs to digest to sign up to the banking product. READ MORE
Picture Perfect or Potentially Perilous is a review from Dr Mark Giancaspro at the University of Adelaide. He discusses the validity of comic contracts. READ MORE