Legal Translations
Child safety and placement matter involving abduction over borders between local authority and foreign national respondents, involving translations into French:
- Correspondence
- court orders
- social services reports
- school reports
- medical reports
- police interviews
- statements
- DNA test results
- court judgment
Approx 180,000 words in total. This assignment took 3 translators approx 6 weeks working full time.
Personal injury case involving a young Italian woman operated on in UK hospital, involving:
- Translations of correspondence
- Translations of affidavits from claimant and family
- Translations of medical reports
- Translation of Occupational Therapist report
- Supply of interpreter in the UK for medical appointments
- Supply of interpreter in Italy to assist occupational therapist
Patent & Trade Mark Translations
Translations produced on a daily basis for a range of individual patent attorneys, patent companies and IP departments of large firms into and from a variety of languages, predominantly German, French and Japanese, of:
- Patent specifications, including description, claims, abstract
- Opposition documents, including:
- Pleadings
- Appeals
- Decisions
- preliminary reports on patentability
- examination reports
- Patent correspondence and notifications
- Trade mark registrations, trade mark opposition documents
Ongoing work in a trade mark oppostion case involving translation of:
- Trade mark rules and council directives
- Extracts from published decisions
- Correspondence to and from OHIM
- Witness statements
- Depositions
Health & Safety Translations
Health & Safety translations for a national building company, including:
- Safety and Environmental Induction course for site workers – production of foreign-language versions in full-colour, laminated and bound.
- Health & Safety posters
- RIDDOR & COSHH poster (designed and translated, printed and laminated)
- Site-safety induction sheets
Into Albanian, Bulgarian, Croat, German, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Turkish
Tourism & Leisure Translations
Tourism guides into Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish for major caravan and camping organisation, including:
- Website content
- Leaflets for individual sites
- General marketing materials
Training & Educational Translations
Translation into 11 languages of training course and development centre materials for local training provider, to be used overseas
- Case study and background materials – newspaper articles, technical specifications, sales figures
- Group and written exercises
- Role plays
Into Czech, Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish
Course materials into French for MA in Tourism from local university in collaboration with French polytechnic, covering:
- Evolution of Tourism and Leisure Patterns
- Consumption and Tourism in a Globalised World
- Tourism and Leisure - Current and Future Implications
Type of documents translated:
- Information on topics in modular format
- PowerPoint presentations
- Interactive web-based tasks
Interpreting
Public service interpreting for criminal, civil, immigration and personal injury cases in a wide range of languages , predominantly Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu, Mirpuri, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Thai, Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Somali, for:
- Court hearings
- Prison visits
- Hospital visits
- Medical appointments
- Police interviews
- Conferences with barristers, solicitors
- Video-link and telephone interpreting to witnesses, plaintiffs and defendants
Conference and business interpreting for commercial companies, charities, and local authorities for:
- Commercial presentations & negotiations
- One-to-one meetings
- Assistance at overseas exhibitions
Provision of two French/English interpreters at a 3-day global conference for an international charity relating to the fight again AIDS, HIV, TB & Malaria
