Practice
What I translate, and how the work is checked.
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 assurance
Every text is checked for terminology, consistency and register against established institutional standards. As a self-revising translator, I deliver work to the standard that needs no second reviser.
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.
A modern toolkit, under expert control
I work fluently with the field's best technology, Trados Studio, memoQ, Phrase and SmartCat, alongside DeepL and AI systems including Claude and Gemini, and I use it on my own terms. The tools handle volume and consistency; the judgement, legal precision and nuance remain human. That balance is what keeps the work both fast and faithful.