Legal Research

Tools to assist with bilingual legal material

By Shaunna Mireau

I was near the bottom of the bell curve for introductory French in my first year of University. Worried for my GPA, I dropped the course just before the transcript appearance cut off date. I have come to deeply regret that decision.

Lucky for me, I have excellent colleagues among the members of the CBA Alberta, Research Lawyers North section. This hybrid section welcomes non-lawyer members. Our September meeting was a round table of research tips.

Jane Fagnan, Legal Counsel with Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench offered some tips and sites to help anglophones with law in French. A couple of sites she mentioned were covered in Simon F’s recent Lexicons post. One great resource that Jane mentioned was L’Institut Joseph-Dubuc. The institute has a great page on legal language resources.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).