English readings — Law
300 original readings written by the FitForm team, graded B1 → C2 and sorted by topic. Reading is free and needs no account; exercises, vocabulary review and essay marking need a FitForm login.
The rule that nobody reads
Every app a student installs asks for agreement to a document that almost nobody opens. Researchers who have…
Who owns a photograph of you
A classmate takes a photograph of you at a school event and posts it. Who decides what happens to that…
The rule with no reason
Every institution accumulates rules whose origins nobody remembers. A school forbids a particular coat. A…
The deterrent that did not deter
A school introduced a fine of ten thousand dong for arriving late to the after-school club. The aim was…
The inspection that found nothing
A food safety inspector visits a kitchen and finds nothing wrong. Two weeks later the same kitchen causes an…
The rule that wrote itself
A school banned phones in corridors. The rule was one sentence long and everyone understood it. Three years…
The witness who was sure
Confidence and accuracy are different things, and courts have spent two centuries learning how different. A…
The precedent that was narrow
A court decided a case about a photograph taken in a park, and within a year the judgment was being cited in…
The contract with one ambiguous word
Two companies spent eleven months in dispute over whether 'days' meant working days or calendar days. The…
The evidence that was inadmissible
A confession obtained without a lawyer present was excluded, and the accused was acquitted. The confession…