Estonian Legal Language Centre: Legal Translation and Terminology Work

Legal Analysis and Terminology

Legal translators and legal translation

Since I am a lawyer, let me start with a disclaimer: nothing I shall say is intended to reflect the views of my employers past or present or any professional association to which I may belong. And please don’t write any letters — unless they are addressed to me. The reason I start in this fashion is that some years ago, when I had just become a notary, I gave an interview to a charming lady fro...

On the relation between legal language and legal argument :

This paper investigates how the logical aspects of legal language determine possibilities to attack and defend arguments in a dispute. An argumentation framework in logic-programming style is presented which can cope with the interplay between assumptions, applicability statements and reasoning about preference relations between norms. The theory is given a solid semantic foundation, and can be...

Cultural Frame and Translation of Pronominal Adverbs in Legal English

This paper explores the relationship between cultural knowledge and the specific meaning of a pronominal adverb in legal English where Chinese translators need to get the correct translation in their venture into translating the language of law. On the one hand, relying on the relevant legal cultural knowledge functioning as domain-general reference within a community or jurisdiction, tra...

Fitness to work: legal pitfalls.

Medical examinations for fitness to work are undertaken by the specialist and the nonspecialist occupational physicians alike. An assessment done negligently in such a capacity will expose physicians to legal risks, even if they are not specialist occupational physicians. This is not unlike negligent care given in the traditional therapeutic care setting. Much of the case law governing legal di...