Delia Venables, in her portal for English law, gives a site for law relating to dogs.
The site has links, for instance to Battersea Dogs Home, and to information at Defra on who can take dogs and cats into Britain and out again without the traditional six months’ quarantine.
Susan Hall, a partner in the English law firm Cobbetts, has written an article for the Law Society Gazette on legal aspects of the Harry Potter novels. After discussing various points, she concludes:
bq. There are two more books to go, but as Ms Rowling has already tackled natural justice, abuse of process, conflict of interest, the burden of proof, the limits on emergency powers, the effect of legal discrimination on promoting civil unrest among disadvantaged groups, and employment discrimination against those suffering contagious conditions, it will be interesting to see where her commentary on contemporary legal topics by means of their wizarding parallels will take her next.
Scott Martens in A Fistful of Euros writes about the future needs of clients for big translation companies in Europe:
bq. I work for a medium-sized Belgian translation firm. We have some 200 freelance translators who take work from us and a handful of full-time staff. Our freelancers can and do take work from other sources, what we do is mostly dealing with clients. Like all good middlemen, we make it possible for businesses to negotiate a single price for their translation work and we act as an insurance policy.
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bq. The ability to charge less for translation, and to invest in technologies that enhance translation productivity and quality, depends quite closely on the size of your firm. As recently as the early 90’s, it was still rare to find pan-European translation firms. The translation market in the EU wasn’t very integrated, and as a result, firms tended to be fairly small. The large, integrated markets – the US and Japan – are monolingual; they don’t do very much translation.
The IPKAT gives a site with links to customs websites all over Europe – EU present and future members – (quoted in connection with an ECJ ruling that France should not stop windscreens passing through France from Spain to Poland, even though these infringe French trademark law).
The page is provided by Langdon Systems, who sell software to handle international customs duties.
Thanks to Sue Young of ITI for passing on the message that Grant and Cutler’s new foreign language dictionary catalogue is online as a PDF, or rather as a number of PDFs. It is dated October 2003. They are not going to issue paper catalogues any longer.
The catalogue has a separate section for Law, and one for (general) German.
They say:
bq. Catalogue entries are not yet linked to our stock and the information is not necessarily current.
Oh well. Grant and Cutler is a foreign language bookshop in London, at 55-57 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7AY, with a mail order service. A number of other catalogues are current, e.g. German books, World Cinema on Video and DVD.
The Christian Science Monitor has an article on a case relating to September 11th that is almost completely secret:
bq. It’s the case that doesn’t exist. Even though two different federal courts have conducted hearings and issued rulings, there has been no public record of any action. No documents are available. No files. No lawyer is allowed to speak about it. Period.
Yet this seemingly phantom case does exist – and is now headed to the US Supreme Court in what could produce a significant test of a question as old as the Star Chamber, abolished in 17th-century England: How far should a policy of total secrecy extend into a system of justice?
Via The Legal Reader