Some links
1. In Court in the act: How many European Courts are there? the IPKAT discusses the confusion: Confusingly similar — but these folk shouldn’t be confused. The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO)...
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Translators and copyright
Translation and intellectual property rights is a brochure/PDF prepared for the EU by Bird and Bird LLP. It is only available in English (a bit Franglish). The brochure considers the law in the EU and...
View ArticleVotes for Life Bill petition for UK citizens living abroad
The Votes for Life Bill is to allow UK citizens living outside the UK to vote in parliamentary and EU elections, even if they have lived abroad for more than 15 years. The government currently intends...
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Brexit is an opportunity to reverse the tragic decline of marriage in Britain
Yes, I was amazed by this heading too. It is over an article by Paul Coleridge in the Telegraph. Fortunately Lucy Reed has done the ground work of ridicule in the Pink Tape blog: Who knew? The EU...
View ArticleMisused English words and expressions in EU publications
I referred to Jeremy Gardner’s work in 2013. It appears the list was expanded and updated in 2016. Here is a new link to the PDF file. I will refer once again to Mark Liberman’s article on the subject...
View ArticleStrafbefehle must be translated – CJEU
Udo Vetter at lawblog reports that the CJEU held that a Strafbefehl must be translated if the defendant doesn’t speak German. Here’s the decision of October 12 2017. Directive 2010/64 on the right to...
View ArticleFollow-up to ‘Strafbefehle must be translated’
In a recent post Strafbefehle must be translated I linked to the CJEU case on the subject. At that time, only the Advocate General’s opinion was available in English, but now I’ve called up a bilingual...
View ArticleLegal Integration and Language Diversity: book on translation in EU lawmaking
Legal Integration and Language Diversity: Rethinking Translation in EU Lawmaking, by C.J.W. Baaij – Oxford University Press, coming out in February This book should be interesting. It comes to the...
View ArticleBrexit-Übergangsgesetz – Transitional Brexit Act
The German Federal Foreign Ministry has prepared a ministry draft of a potential Transitional Brexit Acdt (Brexit-Übergangsgesetz) – the title alone presents a translation problem. There is an...
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