WA Branch Presents
Linguists and the Law:
A practical seminar for
WA T/I practitioners
On-Site Event
Wednesday 18 October 2023 5.30pm - 7.30pm AWST
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Please register by 11.59pm Monday 16 October 2023
AUSIT's WA Branch presents Linguists and the Law: A practical seminar for T/I practitioners.
Open to both AUSIT members and non-members, this seminar will focus on practical examples taken from AUSIT’s Best Practices for the Translation of Official and Legal documents and the Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals, to illustrate how the Law operates in relation to the work translators and interpreters carry out.
Recommended reading prior to attending:
AUSIT’s Best Practices for the Translation of Official and Legal documents and
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 and interpreters located in WA.
Public Transport Information
Buses 24, 950 and Purple CAT from City.
Parking Information
Parking is available on campus after 5pm. Other public parking available along Hackett Drive.
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.
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.
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18 October 2023
5:30pm - 7.30pm AWST
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University of Western Australia
Hackett Drive, Crawley
ON SITE ONLY
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AUSIT Members - AUD 0
AUSIT Student Members - AUD 0
Members of ASLIA NZSTI and associations that are FIT-ITF members - AUD 0
Non-members - AUD 0
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Register HERE
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