Monthly Archives: February 2013

Day course on forensic authorship analysis (UK)

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forensic linguisticsThe Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University in the UK is organizing a day course on Forensic Authorship Analysis on Tuesday 19th March 2013.

“Linguistic evidence of who wrote a text has been increasingly accepted in the UK Courts and recent criminal cases have included murder, stalking, extortion and blackmail. The subject of these analyses can vary from long fraud documents or terrorist conspiracy texts, through shorter letters, blog posts or emails, to very short texts such as SMS text messages, Twitter streams or Facebook status updates.

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UK Justice Select Committee Report published

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800px-UK_-_14_-_architechture_of_parliament_buildings_(2996839565)The UK’s Justice Select Committee has published its report on the outsourcing of court language services to Capita/Applied Language Solutions by the Ministry of Justice (see this previous post for more details). The report comes after an inquiry in September 2012, and the collection of evidence via an online forum (see this post).

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Seminar – Justice interpreting: The need for quality standards, London, UK

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450px-Euston_tube_stn_Northern_Charing_X_branch_roundelA seminar is being organized on Saturday 23 February 2013 from 11 am to 3 pm, by Professional Interpreters for Justice. The title is “Justice interpreting: The need for quality standards” and it is to be held at The Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1, nearest tube: Euston or Euston Square.

Speakers will include Liese Katschinka, President of EULITA and Hilary Maxwell‐Hyslop of IoLET, Alex Tinsley, Fair Trials International, Penny Arbuthnot, Involvis PR and Press advisor, with members of PI4J’s Steering Committee.

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Conference: Multilingual Videoconferencing in Legal Proceedings, Antwerp, Belgium

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Stitched PanoramaAn international symposium is to be held from 19-20 April 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium, entitled Multilingual Videoconferencing in Legal Proceedings.

The symposium is being organised by the EU project AVIDICUS 2 (Assessment of Video-Mediated Interpreting in the Criminal Justice System, led by the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey, 2011-13), and will provide an update on current practice and research.

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International Law Seminar, UN Office at Geneva

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337px-UNOG_2The International Law Seminar, the first of which was held in 1965, takes place on an annual basis and aims to enable postgraduate students or young university teachers specialized in international law, as well as young lawyers working in the international law field, to widen their knowledge of both the work of the International Law Commission (ILC) and of the codification and progressive development of international law. It also provides an opportunity for lawyers coming from different legal systems and cultures to exchange views regarding items on the agenda of the ILC.

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