Practice
What I translate and how I work.
Legal translation is the core of my practice. Around it sits a tightly related set of fields where accuracy is not negotiable, and where the wrong word carries a real cost.
Legal translation
Contracts, statutes, judgments, and constitutional and treaty texts, the core of my practice, where precision is absolute and the margin for error is zero.
Financial translation
Reports, financial statements, debt and sovereign-finance documentation, and the precise language of development finance.
Institutional translation
The working documents of international organisations: proposals, agreements, procedural and policy texts.
Governance
Frameworks, regulations and the institutional architecture that turns policy into practice.
Development
Programme and project documentation for the institutions advancing the continent's development agenda.
Core working languages
English and French, in both directions, my daily working pair, at full professional and legal register.
An extended language network
Through a trusted network of specialist colleagues, and the careful, supervised use of modern language technology, I also coordinate translation into English and French from other languages, including Swahili, German and Spanish, and West African languages such as Twi, Ga, Ewe and Yoruba.
Every engagement runs on a simple promise: accurate work, delivered on time, and handled with discretion. The process behind it is deliberately unremarkable, which is exactly the point.
Process
Each project starts with its purpose and audience. Scope, format and timeline are agreed up front; I then translate, self-revise and quality-check before anything reaches you, publication-ready, without a second pass.
Quality and review
I revise every translation against the source before delivery, checking terminology, consistency, register and meaning. The work arrives ready for your own review and publication process.
Confidentiality & data
Your documents are confidential by default, and I work under NDA whenever required. Files are handled on privately hosted, access-controlled systems, with every tool chosen with data protection in mind and aligned to internationally accepted standards.
Turnaround
Standard turnaround is comfortable and predictable, and tighter deadlines are usually possible. We confirm timing together before work begins, so there are no surprises on either side.
Technology
Modern translation technology supports the work where it is appropriate. It improves consistency and efficiency; the final judgement remains human.
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