NSW Branch: Linguists and the Law: A practical seminar for NSW T/I practitioners

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This training event will be presented
face-to-face

AUSIT's NSW Branch presents Linguists and the Law: A practical seminar for T/I practitioners.

In this interactive 2-hour, face-to-face seminar, open to AUSIT members and non-members, the speaker will use practical examples taken from Australian court decisions to illustrate the operation of the Law in the work of T/I and, in particular, dilemmas encountered by practitioners in the course of assignments.

Come to learn and share your views.

Recommended reading prior to attending:

1. AUSIT’s Best practices for the Translation of Official and Legal documents and
2. Recommended national standards for working with interpreters in courts and tribunals.
   

Presenter - J. Angelo Berbotto

J. Angelo Berbotto LLB(Hons, UTS), LLM (Sapienza, Rome), LLM (Lon), LLM (Complutense, Madrid) is a solicitor based in Sydney and a NAATI certified translator (English > Spanish and French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish > English).

He has worked mainly in Child Protection Law and in Public Law, serving as Attorney-General of the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha from 2016 to 2018. Upon returning to Australia, Angelo worked as Assistant Parliamentary Counsel, drafting legislation, before deciding to pursue his legal career part-time and build up his translation practice in 2022.

Angelo was elected the President of the AUSIT at the AGM in November 2022.

Face-to-Face participation
This event provides a face-to-face participation option for translators located in NSW.

This is an ONSITE EVENT. The event WILL NOT be recorded.

Please note that later in the year there will be a zoom event for anyone who missed out on attending in person.

PD Level - Introductory
Please consult the NAATI Recertification Catalogue to allocate the relevant PD Points - downloadable from www.naati.com.au.  Some activities can be included under different categories, so please choose the most appropriate category for your recertification purposes.

Certificates
Certificates for PD purposes may take approximately two (2) weeks to be released following the event.

We look forward to seeing you there! 

  NSW Branch Committee

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