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Book publication: The New Professional Court Interpreter

May 17, 2013

Tony Rosado, whose guest posts on this blog you might have read – on the Taniguchi case, on translating useless …

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Book talk – Big Data and its Dark Side

April 26, 2013

I thought some of you might be interested in this talk at Harvard Law School by the authors of the book …

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Book review – Found in Translation

November 29, 2012

I feel sure that most readers who are translators will already have heard about the book Found in Translation by …

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Before & after the DSK affair – Review

November 13, 2012

A few weeks ago, I was invited by Jonathan Goldberg of the blog Le mot juste en anglais to review …

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Quantifying the cost of poor quality in translation – sour cherries

June 21, 2012

The Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission has made available a report written late last year, as part of …

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Lexique des termes juridiques

June 19, 2012

This is a fantastic little tome for all those dealing with French law. Published by the highly respected legal publisher …

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Council of Europe French-English Legal Dictionary

May 28, 2012

For anyone who has recently starting working in the language pair French to English, or those who might not already …

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Two great legal thesauri

May 23, 2012

First off, the Multilingual Thesaurus of the European Union, EuroVoc, has been upgraded. Available in 24 languages, it doesn’t work …

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Legal Translation Explained

April 26, 2012

A few days ago I realized that I hadn’t included a book review for quite a while. Although this book …

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Britain’s ancient statute book

April 5, 2012

This week a report produced jointly by the Law Commission for England & Wales (LCEW) and the Scottish Law Commission recommends …

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