The Open University and the BBC are co-producing a four-part series on barristers. At least those in the UK will be able to see it.
It starts on Friday November 14.
There is a website for the series with extensive materials, including videoclips with transcripts. There is also a free booklet that can be ordered.
Apparently barristers are ‘the sharpest legal minds’, and at least one of my commenters will agree with this.
(Thanks to Ekkehard, once of Erlangen but now of the OU)
Michael reports (with pictures) on the translation blog talk/meetings at the ATA conference in Orlando.
Meanwhile, Céline is interviewed on My Cool Job.
It was time to take some exercise today.
Here is the zoo’s most famous animal:
But it won’t be flowering at this time of year.
A non-profit site for texts and links on German law in English has been set up with the help of the German Foreign Office:
Centre for German Legal Information
I completely missed this until alerted by a comment, but it has been widely announced on German embassies from the beginning of September onwards.
The site offers legislation, decisions and other materials, such as articles, with links to German law resources in English online.
It is possible to search for German or English titles (the German Law Archive only uses the English titles).
LATER NOTE: German statutes, for example, are translated into English by many different authorities, including international ones, and provided free of charge online. Not all the translations are good, of course, but legal translators need to be able to discriminate. One problem in finding statute translations is that the URL may change. You may often find a translation via Google if it isn’t where you expected.
This site should be a resource to find those translations. Thus, for example, if you have to translate a new statute including alterations to an old one, you may want to see what previous translators have done.
Having said that: the site does give a full text search, which I haven’t tried. It also has an FAQ and users’ guide. But I would hesitate to use a translated statute as a terminology resource.
The BBC reports that a sign saying ‘No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only’ reads in Welsh ‘I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated’.
(Thanks to u-forum – must have slipped past AvO)
The Illicit Cultural Property Blog reported recently that pre-Columbian objects of Costa Rica’s national heritage valued at more than 100 million dollars are not being retrieved for lack of funds for a Spanish-German translation.
(Spotted by Trevor)