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Month: January 2007

  • Claimant, plaintiff, pursuer / Kläger

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    Parties to civil proceedings in England: Up to 1999: plaintiff and defendant (divorce: petitioner and respondent) A claimant included a person claiming some benefit, for instance unemployment benefit. From 1999 (Civil Procedure Rules) claimant and defendant (divorce: petitioner and respondent) A claimant for unemployment benefit etc. (as before) In Scotland: pursuer and defender (divorce: petitioner…

  • Comparative Legal Linguistics / Buch

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    Professor Heikki E.S. Mattila of the University of Lapland has published a book on comparative legal linguistics that looks interesting and expensive. The amazon.com page lets you look inside and see the full table of contents and an extract. The publisher’s page is fairly long too, so I’ll quote from that here: Contents Foreword; Foreword…

  • Kiri te Kanawa

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    I didn’t think I’d have occasion to mention law cases relating to antipodean underwear twice in one month, but here is the first and here the second: The New South Wales Supreme Court, in Sydney, was told that Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, the operatic soprano, pulled out of a series of concerts with John Farnham,…

  • Adrian Zack’s problem / Maschinenschreiben

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    The Wall Street Journal law blog reported recently of a case where a student sued the University of Michigan Law School, alleging that its grading system discriminated against people with poor typing skills. Adrian Yaroslaw Zachariasewycz probably spent ten minutes typing his own name. The complaint begins ‘The plaintiffs (hereinafter Adrian Zack and Maria Zack)…

  • Ken Adams on contract drafting / Verfassen von englischsprachigen Verträgen

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    I mentioned Ken Adams’ book ‘A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting’ and an article by him on translating English language contracts in 2004. Ken has a website which includes a blog and a list of articles with links to them. His latest blog entry introduces a New Law Review article by himself and Alan…

  • The German Times

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    The German Times is the name of a newspaper launched on January 19th in Berlin: “We want to accompany Europe’s coalescence, in that we are creating a medium from Germany for all of Europe,” says Editor in Chief Bruno Waltert. Its circulation is 50,000 and it will be distributed to all 7265 members of the…