Jusletter IT

This work deals with the question of how federal court decisions can be made more understandable and accessible to non-lawyers through legal design thinking. For this purpose, a randomly selected federal court decision was redesigned. The goal was not to didactically change the decision, but to emphasise the important/decisive points by using bullet points, colouring or bold printing of parts of the sentence. Care was taken to ensure that no relevant arguments of an opposing party were overlooked. A prepared outline of the facts did not add any value, but explanations of legal terms in the footnotes and supplementing the «Regeste» with «key take-aways» helped. It is believed that these methods make an implementation by the court more likely than when the judge or clerk is encouraged to use more commonly understood terms and phrases.