Thai Translations of legal documents are required for many
different reasons relating to judicial or administrative proceedings in other
countries. Often the translation must be accompanied by a sworn affidavit of
the translator, certified by foreign authorities so as to be considered valid
in the procedure for which it is required. A simple example is a birth
certificate, which, if not in English, might require a certified translation to
accompany it in some immigration process in the United States. A more complex
example would be an international service contract between two large companies.
Usually such contracts recite which language version is controlling, but it is
always important to have as faithful a translation as possible into the other
language. Trial transcripts and deposition transcripts might require
translation for use in legal proceedings in other countries, and so on.
Why is Legal Translation Difficult?
The essential difficulty of legal terminology is that it is
the product of a specific legal system. In the context of a different legal
system, the word not only has little or no meaning. For example, the phrase,
"revocable trust" in English is hard to translate into other
languages because the concept of "revocable trust" is native to
Western legal systems and may not exit in other legal systems. This requires of
the translator a thorough understanding of the underlying legal concepts. Thus,
the legal translator has to have mastery of both legal systems as well as of
the two languages.
Security and Confidentiality is an Issue
ExperTrans Global maintains strict and enforceable
confidentiality commitments with all its translators so as to protect a
client's privileged documents. (Virtually all countries recognize that delivery
of documents for translation does not damage attorney-client privilege).
Additionally, ExperTrans Global works with only fully certified and
credentialed translators, who have been subject to security checks in most
cases. Fortunately, ExperTrans Global translations has accumulated over the
years good working relationships with knowledgeable legal translators in
several fields, involving most of the common language pairings. This permits
clients to receive both quotes and finished product quickly.
Legal Translation Objectives
The objective for legal documents for judicial or
administrative proceedings is to generate a translation that will have the same
effect in the target legal system as the original document had in its own.
Sometimes this requires additional documentation, like certificates (or
affidavits) of accuracy, apostiles or consular recognitions, and on rare
occasion, personal appearances by the translator before some local authority.
The objective for legal documents in the private context (wills, contracts,
etc.) is to convey a clear understanding of what the source document is saying,
in unambiguous prose. Sometimes this requires a quite literal translation, with
occasional notes to explain how a term might have more than one meaning in
context. If the original is itself ambiguous or unclear, the effort is to make
the translation without imposing any additional clarity, that is, to allow the
ambiguity to transfer into the target language.
Examples of Legal Translations:
Judicial
Thai Statutes
Thai Judgments & Decrees
Thai Evidentiary Documents
Thai Summons & Pleadings
Thai Administrative
Thai Regulations
Thai Rulings & Decisions
Thai Reports & Technical Submissions
Thai Certificates of Birth, Death, Marriage
Private
Contracts
Thai Wills & Testaments
Thai Trusts
Thai Financial Documents
Thai Insurance Records
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Address: No. 62, Lane 19, Tran Quang Dieu St., Dong Da Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam
Phone : (+84) 4 7303 8899 - Fax: +84 4 62 85 84 46
Hotline: (+84) 92 605 1999
Email: sales@expertrans.com
OFFICE IN SAIGON
Address: R11.01B, Vietnam Business Center Bulding, 57 – 59 Ho Tung Mau st, District 1, Ho Chi Minh, VN
Phone: (+84) 8 222 022 89
Email: hochiminh@expertrans.com
