To all those not on holiday… Have a great week!
Opportunity in Brussels for UK trainee solicitors
The Brussels Office of the three Law Societies (England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) is currently offering trainee solicitors from the UK a unique opportunity to undertake a six-month secondment in the Brussels Office commencing in September 2015.
Reforms of Italian civil justice – Reporting from London
On Monday 13 July 2015, I attended a presentation at the Law Society, in London, UK, by Andrea Orlando, the Italian Minister of Justice, about the current reforms of the civil justice system in Italy.
Monday smile – Ice cream theft blunder
As large parts of Europe are currently having a heat wave, this post seemed particularly suitable.
Two teenagers in Utah, USA, managed to live broadcast themselves stealing tubs of ice-cream from a truck.
Environmental legislation – global database
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) makes available on its website The Global Climate Legislation Study. It is the fifth edition in a series dating back to 2010.
The 2015 edition covers 98 countries plus the EU, up from 66 in 2014.
Report on court interpreting in the EU
Following on from last week’s post on the European Guide for Legal Expertise (EGLE) project, I would like to bring to your attention the 2015 report of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) which gives an overview of the quality, independence and efficiency of the judicial systems of European Member States.
Monday smile – Forbidden fruit
A local council in the UK has been somewhat embarrassed in the press this week following a spat between a member of the public and a somewhat over-zealous warden.
Luke Gutteridge took his fight to court after being fined £75 for dropping orange peel in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.
Press review on European judicial systems
I feel sure that you will be as fascinated as I was by a press review (2014) covering the judicial systems of Andorra, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Morocco, Monaco, The Netherlands, Romania, Scotland, the Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, as well as an international section.
It is published by the Council of Europe and the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ).
Conference proceedings – European Guide for Legal Expertise
The European Expertise & Expert Institute (EEEI) has made available online the documents and videos from its plenary conference held in late May this year at the Italian Court of Cassation, Rome, Italy.
The conference was focused on the European Guide for Legal Expertise (EGLE) project, and was entitled “Civil judicial expertise in the European Union“.
Temporary job opportunity – Translating for the European Commission
The European Commission is currently looking for translators into English from two source languages, the first one of which must be one of the following: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian or Swedish.
The second source language must be different from the first source language and can be any of the languages mentioned above or French, German, Italian or Spanish.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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