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I'm not sympathetic to the profession on this. You have to be able to deal with the contortions of language that generations of lawyers have created in lengthy statutes, but other, well or less, educated people should not have to. If a GCSE Grade C in English language is considered the standard for being able to function in society, why should people who cannot understand, and do not know they don't understand, the every-day 'conditions' they are regularly handed, AFTER purchase, be assumed to have agreed to them? If the law accepted that defence, then there'd be plenty of work for the Plain English Society.
And I do know what I'm talking about, as I've had to sigh my way through, sometimes deliberately (surely?), over-complicated documents, and compare them with French and Spanish versions.
I don't know how 'ignorance of the law' is construed, but I'm sure it will have been invented for the convenience of judges.