Ted Tjaden discusses limited Quebec decision translations in National Post

Court decisions may be lost in translation
July 18, 2012 - National Post
Julius Melnitzer


Ted Tjaden, National Director of Knowledge Management at McMillan LLP, was featured in an article titled Court decisions may be lost in translation in the July 18, 2012 edition of the National Post. In the article he discusses the limited number of Quebec decision translations.

"The case databases most commonly used by lawyers, including a free database of unofficial translations, reveals only 395 translations of French-language decisions from Quebec administrative courts or tribunals.

Writing on the legal blog SLAW, Mr. Tjaden notes that 167 of these decision originate in the Quebec Court of Appeal, 95 in the Quebec Superior Court, 118 in the Court of Quebec, and a smattering from administrative tribunals."

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