Blimey, BEagle, you have a good memory. I can't remember the names of cases that I read yesterday, and I do it for a living. I wonder why the law bits of your engineering degree included such stuff? I had some fun defending BA on assorted dismissal raps a few years back (pished-up Pursers, mostly, rather than sacked Nigels), which got me some jump seat rides on the shuttle to Manchester.
Plain English legislation is a possibility. A good example is the Human Rights Act (or, more accurately, the Convention, scheduled to the Act), which was drafted for the most part by a Brit team led by Viscount Kilmuir in the late 1940s. Some of the clearest statutory drafting I know of dates from the late C19 (late Victorian Judges also wrote their judgments with sparkling clarity, economy and precision).