Legal English Shot
Legal English Shot – your monthly dose of language tips
Interested in getting a monthly booster to keep yourself vaccinated against the most common legal English mistakes?
Once a month you will a receive brief e-mail with concise advice on how to avoid one of the specific mistakes in vocabulary, grammar or style that the Senior Lawyer-Linguists at Hieronymus come across daily as they review and refine the many legal texts that pass through their hands. Having trouble with a specific term or bothered by a mistake that keeps turning up?
The last Legal English Shots
Legal English Shot – Have you ever witnessed a witness wrongfully called an informant?
What to call an Auskunftsperson or personne appelée à donner des renseignements in English? Any person who is required to give information to the police or to testify at a …Continue reading »Legal English Shot – Don’t let the court of competent jurisdiction hold you incompetent
Master the difference between jurisdiction and competence The English term “jurisdiction” can have different meanings, depending on the context: The official power to hear a suit and to make judicially …Continue reading »Legal English Shot – To be continued…after the continuance
“Continuance” is a term used in American legal English for the postponement or adjournment of legal proceedings. The proceedings continue when the continuance period comes to an end. Confusion can …Continue reading »Legal English Shot – Please don’t revert to me
The English word “revert” never has the meaning “to contact a person again (about something already discussed)”. In normal parlance, to revert means to go back to an earlier subject, …Continue reading »
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Reference Manuals
Hieronymus is pleased to make available a number of practical tools distilled from our many years of experience in translating into legal English:
Hieronymus Style Guide for
Legal Writing in English
Part I: Legal English-Course
Key notions and civil procedure
Part II: Legal English-Course
The law of obligations and company law
Available Mai 2020
Part III: Legal English-Course
Debt enforcement and bankruptcy law
Available September 2020
Bilingual Reference Material
for Handy Use
Available August 2020