The European Judicial Network began operating in 2002. It is a non-bureaucratic structure operating informally to simplify judicial cooperation between Member States*.
“The EJN […] provides valuable access to justice for persons engaged in cross-border litigation.”
Babel, a new show on the Canadian radio station CBC Radio One hosted by an Argentinian with a passion for languages “explores the impact of diversity, technology, and community on Canadian English”.
This 28-minute episode of the show discusses a variety of language-related topics including multilingual families, court interpreting, medical interpretation and forensic linguistics.
The ImPLI (Improving Police and Legal Interpreting) project has made available 10 fact sheets describing the legal systems of Germany, Scotland, France, Italy and the Czech Republic.
The fact sheets are succinct and provide a good overview for reference. They can be downloaded from the project’s webpage.
Following last week’s post on the origins of simultaneous interpreting techniques, this short video, jointly produced by the European Parliament and the United Nations, gives an insight into interpretation at these two institutions.
A couple of smiles today with kind permission from the website of law cartoons Stu’s Views.
Enjoy!
The Press Service at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has published a series of Factsheets on subjects ranging from data protection to trade union rights, and from detention to social welfare.
The Factsheets describe important jurisprudence at the institution and there are currently 36 available – in English, German, Russian and French.
This fascinating video from the US Federal Judiciary Channel shows an interpreter who worked at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials describing the origins of simultaneous translation techniques.
Following on from yesterday’s post, and to round off the week with a useful resource – the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne provide some excellent links on their website.
Continuing with my mini-series “What exactly is…” (following on from What exactly is forensic linguistics? and What exactly is a lawyer-linguist?), today let’s take a brief look at the subject of Comparative Law.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law* describes the discipline as “time-honoured but not easily understood in all its dimensions”. According to Michael Bogdan**, comparative law may be defined as “the comparing of different legal systems with the purpose of ascertaining the similarities and differences“.
Knowing that quite a few translators work on patents, I thought this glossary from the United States Patent and Trademark Office might be of use.
Personally, I’m not too keen on the visual presentation of the glossary, but it certainly seems useful.
There are also a number of videos providing introductions to various procedures and terms (such as “specimen”, “applicant”, “drawing” and “basis”) used by the Office. You can access a list here. Beware – not all computers will play the videos and some of the links appear to be broken. 😦
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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