I am delighted to introduce Stéphanie Roy, a language advisor that I was lucky enough to see presenting live about a month ago (thoroughly recommended). Stéphanie is a lawyer (Avocate de l’année – Leader de demain du Jeune Barreau de Montréal no less!) and the co-founder of En Clair, a Quebec consultancy which works with companies, banks, organizations and law firms on making documents clearer and more effective.
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I’m guessing that given our shared interests, no reader of this blog thinks that Brexit is a good idea. Very hard to laugh about it, but let’s try…
Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom had these words to say about this book:
“Isobel Williams’s drawings capture the essence of these inquisitive and endearing characters – and her words help bring to life some of the things they get up to when the Justices and staff aren’t looking.”
I was very interested to find out about a virtual conference on all sorts of topics around translation and interpreting, organised by a good friend of this blog Gio Lester, and Marcia Nabrzecki. They are veteran T&I professionals, and the conference is called ConVTI-2017, to be held on 26 and 27 August 2017.
It has been a delight over the last week or so to receive many contributions from readers in response to a call I put out asking for examples of books where the translator’s name was featured on the front cover. So first and foremost – thank you all so much!
Have a great week – whether with or without seafood…
The Registry of the European Court of Human Rights is seeking an English Language Checker on a fixed-term contract, located in Strasbourg, France.
Under the authority of the Registrar of the Court and the Head of the Language Department, the incumbent will review the linguistic quality of specified categories of the Court’s draft judgments and decisions drafted in English by Registry lawyers who are not native English speakers.
