by ICRtranslations | May 26, 2021 | Legal words
During the four-month course on Scots wills and executries I recently completed, I read about and studied numerous cases. While I did not manage to remember as many cases as I would have liked to, some of them stuck early on. The more unusual the facts or the...
by ICRtranslations | May 5, 2021 | Legal words
Following up on my article about managing the affairs of missing persons, where I wrote about guardians (EW), judicial factors loco absentis (SCO) and representantes del ausente (SPA), today I share information about declaring missing persons dead in England and...
by ICRtranslations | Apr 14, 2021 | Legal words
People going missing for a long time can have enormous implications for their family members regarding dealing with their property and financial affairs. In this article, I share general information about managing a missing person’s affairs in England and Wales,...
by ICRtranslations | Mar 24, 2021 | Legal words
Are you automatically entitled to a share of your deceased spouse’s or civil partner’s estate? In this article, I share basic information on the rights of spouses and civil partners on death in three different legal systems: England and Wales, Scotland, and Spain....
by ICRtranslations | Mar 4, 2021 | Q&A
A recent true story: a client hires sworn translation services but receives a translation self-certified by someone not officially appointed as a sworn translator. The translation then gets rejected by the Spanish authorities. Unfortunately, this is far from an...
by ICRtranslations | Mar 2, 2021 | ICR NEWS
Don de Lenguas is a weekly radio programme by Salamanca University’s Translation and Interpreting Department. Recently, they reached out and invited me to chat about legal translation for the programme. The interview is now available in Spanish on their blog:...
by ICRtranslations | Feb 15, 2021 | Q&A
While these days I do not get this question as often as I used to, it still pops up every now and then in my emails. ICR Translations does not offer neither next-day nor same-day sworn translation services and in this short article I explain why. Sworn translation...
by ICRtranslations | Jan 11, 2021 | Legal words
When two or more people buy property jointly, they can take steps so that the share of the first one of them to die passes automatically to the other, irrespective of their wills. Well, at least they can do so in Scotland and in England and Wales, but not in Spain. In...
by ICRtranslations | Dec 14, 2020 | Q&A
You may be asked to submit a Spanish sworn translation in so many different situations that I thought the best way to answer this question is by going specific and providing examples. Based on real clients that I have helped over the years, I am sharing a list of 10...
by ICRtranslations | Nov 24, 2020 | ICR NEWS
Earlier this year, I completed the 3-month Spanish Law specialisation course for legal translation (Especialización en Derecho para Traducción Jurídica) from Educación Digital. Lola Gamboa recently invited me to share some thoughts on my career and profile as a legal...
