The Australian Judicial Council on Cultural Diversity has published its Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals. The Standards are accompanied by Model Rules and a Model Practice Note to give effect to the Standards.
Category Archives: Resources
Third book of interviews with terminologists
The third collection of interviews with prominent terminologists has just been published by the Terminology Coordination Unit at the European Parliament.
The book explores corpora, training, translation and terminology, termbase projects, lexicography, standards, and a lot more! Continue reading
Final report – Pilot database for European legal interpreters and translators
The final report of the LIT Search project, which has been working on a European pilot database of legal interpreters and translators, has just been published according to an announcement on the EULITA website dated 21 June 2017. I do encourage you to download and read it.
Court interpreting video – simulated trial
The German professional body for translators and interpreters, the BDÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer) makes available a video of a simulated trial involving German/Italian interpreting.
Guide to misuse of English
The European Court of Auditors makes available a free, downloadable 59-page guide entitled Misused English words and expressions in EU publications.
As far as I’m concerned, it is precious far beyond the EU’s own publications – these issues come up regularly in all kinds of situations.
Glossaries of Translation Studies terms
For many years I’ve been wishing that there was (standardized) glossary of the ‘jargon’ used in translation studies – if possible multilingual – to help non-academics and newcomers to the field to understand the research literature, and also, if they wish, to write about translation using those specialist terms. Continue reading
Guide to Canada’s system of justice
The Department of Justice Canada makes available a very clearly set out 42-page guide to Canada’s System of Justice.
Published in 2015, it provides general information about the origins of the Canadian legal system, updating laws, the Constitution, rights and freedoms, how the courts are organised, civil and criminal cases, the role of the public, and more.
