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1Sep2014

Monday smile – Misuse of premises

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5402340884_e472d9f447_zIt appears that a female at Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Centre managed to fool her keepers into thinking that she was pregnant, having learnt that pregnancy would lead to all sorts of treats…

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25Aug2014

Monday smile – From Anglo-Saxon to globish

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If you appreciate a British sense of humor and want to find out all about the history of the English language, I thoroughly recommend that you take 11 minutes to watch this fantastic video…

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11Aug2014

Monday smile – Lawyer lets fly

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flyswJust in case you haven’t caught up with this one yet…

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4Aug2014

Monday smile – Advertising regulations

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beerI did enjoy this…

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28Jul2014

Monday smile – Collective nouns for lawyers

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Enjoy your week!

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21Jul2014

Monday smile – Word crimes (and remedies)

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818445088_aa4c63d474_zThis tongue-in-cheek video should get you bouncing around this Monday morning. 🙂

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14Jul2014

Monday smile – Un tour

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Today’s smile has a distinctly French flavor… in keeping with the day! 🙂

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7Jul2014

Monday smile – Typing in concert

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For all those who will be doing a lot of typing this week, today’s smile is a musical one…

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30Jun2014

Monday smiles – Pane e tulipani

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tulipsA tenuous link with the law today, but having remembered a most beautiful Italian film from a few years ago, Pane e tulipani, I just had to share it with you / remind you of it.

The law does actually come into the film a little bit – in the form of a private detective… but I won’t spoil your fun by telling you the story.

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23Jun2014

Monday smiles – The Photocopier

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Today’s smile is a dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, published a few weeks ago by the New York Times, in which a lawyer becomes embroiled in an argument about the definition of a photocopier. Make sure you watch until the very end… 😉

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The third WordstoDeeds conference “Legal Translation and Risk” took place on Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 January 2023. It was a really great event!

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    Understanding EUR-Lex
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