Category: Litigation
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AI in Multilingual Litigation: The challenges of Global Legal Disputes
One of the primary challenges in multilingual litigation lies in the need for precise translation. Legal documents, often dense with specialised terminology and nuanced expressions, require more than mere linguistic conversion. Whilst human translation by experienced and qualified professionals offers the greatest degree of accuracy and reliability, in this brave new AI powered world there may be methods…
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Service Out Of Jurisdiction: The Hague Service Convention & Foreign Process Section
The Hague Service Convention, established in 1965, revolutionised the process of serving legal documents across international borders.
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The Price of Misunderstanding: The Wasted Costs of Multilingual Cases in the UK
The judgment Rainer Hughes Solicitors v Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Ltd & Ors (Rev1) [2024] EWHC 585 (KB) provides crucial guidance for preparing for wasted costs hearings and is a further significant addition to the existing body of case law concerning witness statements for non-English speakers.
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The Crucial Role of Legal Translation in International Litigation
The world is getting smaller. Increasingly interconnected. Whilst this brings massive benefit, it also brings the risk of miscommunication and misinterpretation. As such, in the increasingly interconnected global legal landscape, with legal matters more often transcending geographical boundaries, international litigation has become more common.