Plain English in legal communication: the history of formation and features

The article discusses new linguistic phenomenon in the field of professional communication in the field of law, which got the name of «Plain English». The author examines the historical background of this phenomenon origin establishes the causes of its appearance. The main objective of the article is to determine the linguistic features of professional legal communication in the format of simple English. The article not only discusses the main lexical and grammatical difficulties and ways to simplify them in legal texts, but also explains the reasons for such a transformation. The relevance of the article is focused to the existing difficulties in mastering and applying the classical legal language, which is rightfully considered one of the most difficult professional languages. However, the problem in understanding legal English arises not only among English language learners, but also among native English speakers, for whom legal English becomes a truly foreign language. The emergence of the language phenomenon "Plain English", its application at the legislative level, the creation of international organizations whose purpose is to disseminate the norms of simple and understandable English in the legal field contribute not only to the understanding of legal English texts at the international level. All this also simplifies the understanding of the law for a simple English-speaking person. The study of this problem may be interesting for translators, teachers of a foreign language in the field of jurisprudence, as well as for practicing lawyers working with a foreign language.