Category: Legal Translation

In the professional services sector, clear and accurate communication is paramount. This is particularly true when dealing with legal, financial, and medical documents, where even the smallest error can have significant consequences.

Translation is often referred to as the second oldest profession. Throughout the centuries it has enabled trade, diplomacy, and even holidays! It has helped ideas flourish and progress blossom.

All translation is more than simply exchanging one word for another. It is ensuring a message, an idea, a concept rendered in one language is faithfully expressed in another.

To the uninitiated, the terms interpreter/translator and interpreting/translating are often used interchangeably. However, they refer to very different skills and jobs.   If you didn’t know this, you are forgiven, and you are not alone. Fear not, however, as we can quickly and easily clarify the differences between the two.

The need for legal translation is all around: from immigration documents to contracts, litigation to academic certificates, or anything in between – the need for legal translation services is almost unavoidable. In most circumstances, organisations requesting such translations may require them to be ‘certified’. But what does this mean? How are such things procured? And, are there any…

Regardless of where you’re getting it from, there are several key factors that affect the cost of any translation.

Unfortunately, and seemingly contrary to popular belief, translation can be a surprisingly complex process. In reality, the turnaround time for a translation is affected by a myriad of factors.