For those readers wishing to become more familiar with courtroom language in English, I thought you might be interested in this new initiative…
Monday smile – Shades of grey
And here we are starting another week… Enjoy it!
Fantastic French notarial glossary
I just had to share with you a great resource that I found recently. It is published by a firm of notaries that has its offices in Place Vendôme (for those that are unfamiliar with the address, it also houses some of the finest jewelers in Paris and is arguably one of its most beautiful squares…).
Reporting from Finding the Parallels: Interpreting in medical and judicial settings
A conference report has just been published on a boutique event held in Orlando, Florida in August this year called Finding the Parallels: Interpreting in medical and judicial settings. It brought together stakeholders from the health, legal and language service provision sectors.
Deadline passed for transposition of EU law on right to translation and interpretation
Last week the deadline for the transposition of Directive 2010/64/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings passed.
Jobs as EU lawyer-linguists – Court of Justice, Council, Parliament
The European Personnel Selection Office is recruiting lawyer-linguists.
Monday smiles – South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats
No, really – that *is* the name of the case!!! This oddity occurs in certain US cases involving the seizure or ownership of property, where the item or animal is the ‘defendant’. Over to Kevin Underhill for more…
Call for trainee translators & interpreters – Model United Nations
The Geneva International Model United Nations (GIMUN) 2014 Annual Conference (22-28 march 2014) is recruiting!
GIMUN is a fully student-run Non Governmental Organisation in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Its goal is to promote the ideals and principles of the United Nations among the youth – university students in particular. It seeks to provide young adults with a multilateral platform to discuss various global issues that are handled by the UN. The core event is the Annual MUN Conference, but other activities are organized throughout the year.
Training – English law course in Nice, France
David Hutchins, of Lexacom English Law Courses, is running a two-day course on Contract law & civil liability, the English legal system, and Company law terminology from 22-23 November 2013.
The course is aimed at legal translators and interpreters but is suitable also for civil code lawyers provided they have the requisiite level of English.
(WordstoDeeds: Can’t guarantee the weather will look like this, but hope springs eternal…)
A reader’s request for help
I recently received an email at the blog, and thought that it might be an interesting question to start a community discussion…
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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