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Who I work for
Lawyers, in-house counsel and judicial officers (huissiers de justice): written submissions, judgments, contracts, terms and conditions, correspondence, court documents…
Legal translationNotaries: deeds, powers of attorney, articles of association, civil registration and probate documents…
Legal translationInsurers, medical advisers, hospitals, clinics and laboratories: expert medical reports, disability files, clinical reports, package leaflets, protocols…
Medical translationIndustry and engineering: manuals, data sheets, specifications, test reports, compliance documentation…
Technical translationBanks, finance departments, accountancy and audit firms: annual reports, accounts, investment documentation, banking and tax correspondence…
Financial translationHuman resources and training: employment contracts, staff handbooks, assessment questionnaires, training materials…
Legal or technical translation, depending on the documentManagement, communications and marketing: annual reviews, presentations, brochures, web pages, business correspondence…
ServicesPublic authorities, international organisations, NGOs and not-for-profit organisations: official decisions, official correspondence, reports, social security files…
Administrative translationPrivate individuals: civil registration documents, diplomas, judgments, insurance, probate or relocation files…
Administrative translationWhat a poorly translated document costs in your line of work
In law
Get one word in a clause slightly wrong, and the argument you put to the court may fail.
The court rules on the text before it.
In medicine
A dose out by one unit, a medical history missing from an expert report: the insurer or the doctor decides on the strength of the translation.
Medical translationIn engineering
A measurement converted wrongly, a safety instruction reversed: if there is an accident, the manufacturer is liable for the instructions supplied with the product.
Technical translationIn finance
Profit before tax turns into net profit in an annual report, and the decision is taken on a figure that is not in the original.
Financial translationIn public administration
An appeal lodged too late because the translation took 3 weeks.
The deadline for challenging a decision does not stop while the document waits.
Three kinds of French, three readerships
A judgment read in Brussels, a decision consulted in Lausanne and a contract drafted in Paris are written in three different kinds of French.
I deliver in the one your reader uses: ‘citation’ before a Belgian court, ‘assignation’ before a French one (both mean a writ of summons); ‘bouclement’ of the accounts in Geneva, ‘clôture’ in Paris (the year-end close); ‘septante’ (seventy) in a Belgian or Swiss deed.
Dutch likewise follows Belgian or Netherlands usage, and English British or American usage. The details, variant by variant.
‘In law, language is never neutral: it has legal effects.’
Worth reading before you order a legal translation
Cinq pièges de traduction qui se paient en droit
An article I wrote (in French; the title means ‘Five translation traps that cost you in law’), published on Village de la Justice on 21 July 2026, then on Jubel, the Belgian online journal for the legal professions, on 13 August 2026.
Five mistakes I keep seeing in case files, and what they cost in court: confusing the interpreter with the translator; treating a legal term as an everyday word; failing to make the translation traceable; underestimating what a translated consent commits a person to; leaving it too late.
Read the article on Village de la Justice Read the article on Jubel All publications
How I work, point by point: the method.
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