…when it’s a burrito, according to the Superior Court in Massachusetts in 2006.
Symposium: On Becoming a Legal Translator, London, UK
The University of Roehampton and the open-access Journal of Specialised Translation are organizing a one-day event on Friday 9 January 2015 at the University of Roehampton, London, UK entitled Becoming a Legal Translator: a symposium.
Guest post – On banishing shall and throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Today I’d like to point out to you an article by Kenneth A. Adams. His book A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is widely used throughout the legal profession. The Lawyers Weekly explains: “In the world of contract drafting, Ken Adams is the guru”.
Monday smile – Spinning tales
Enjoy your week everyone!
New open-access journal on language and law
Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito is a new free, exclusively online peer-reviewed journal to be published twice a year.
The Editors are Malcolm Coulthard, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, and Rui Sousa-Silva, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. The International Editorial Board comprises an impressive list of names from the fields of forensic linguistics, legal translation and interpreting, and more generally language and law.
Bat walk and dangerous ha-ha
Today’s entry doesn’t really fall into the humour category at all, apart from in name, and concerns liability.
Conference – Interpreter-mediated communication with children
During a final two-day conference on 13 and 14 November 2014 in Antwerp, Belgium, the findings of the Co-Minor-IN/QUEST project will be presented.
Keynote speakers from various professional fields (police, justice, psychology, child support and interpreting) will discuss current practices in interpreter-mediated communication with children, particularly in the pre-trial phase of criminal cases.
Plain language court glossary in 8 languages
Thanks to funding from The Law Foundation of British Columbia and the Notary Foundation, Vancouver Community College Centre for Continuing Education Studies created a web site containing 5,000 plain language legal terms to assist professionals and multicultural users participating in court or legal processes.
Conference – Theories, practices & instruments of forensic linguistics
A conference entitled “Theories, practices and instruments of forensic linguistics”, is being organized from 1-3 December 2014 jointly by the Sapienza University of Rome and the University Roma Tre.
The conference is an innovative mix of physical and virtual attendance.
Monday smile – Percussion & dust
Very tenuous link with language and/or law today, apart from possible heath and safety at work issues…
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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