I am studying the readability of anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs), and my initial analysis suggests they may not always be well understood by those to whom they apply. My next step is to find out how well lawyers believe recipients understand ASBOs and how far they have to explain them to recipients. I’d be grateful for readers’ views on this, as well as copies of any over-complicated orders. I will of course treat all replies in strict confidence. A further step in the work, depending on the results, is to rewrite some ASBOs and test them.