If you are a Spanish-English or English-Spanish translator, interested in moving into legal translation, this 3-hour workshop across two days, will provide the foundations you need.
Through a combination of presentations, small group discussion and practical activities, during this training you will:
- Gain a more in-depth understanding of the Spanish and English legal systems, including court structure and the legal profession.
- Familiarise yourself with some terms of contract law and their meaning, based on Roman law.
- Learn what notaries do, the structure of a notarial document and how a property sale works in Spain.
- Understand about the application of translation theory to legal translation, such as model texts, register, and non-equivalence.
- Get tips about useful research resources for legal translation.
- Practise translating excerpts from a contract and a notarial document.
The workshop will leave you feeling more proficient when translating contractual and notarial documents and enable you to pursue your legal translation career with confidence.
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